the shakes
Example Sentences
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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
"The vomiting got really serious and suddenly I had the shakes," he said.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023
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
‘It gives me the shakes, ma’am, when something like that happens, it really does.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
