the shakes
Example Sentences
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It was the anticipation; I'd get the shakes.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024
Oddly enough it's not the food that the report targets -- not the fries, burgers or even the shakes and cakes -- but what touches the food before you eat it.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024
Even some of the most seasoned veterans still get the shakes before the curtain goes up.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022
The result is a kind of tremulous latticework, a grid with a case of the shakes.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
She caught a band with one front claw and was able to grab the overhang with her hind feet and, scratching hard on the shakes, pull herself up onto the roof.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
