Idiom
brace of shakes
Meaning
A very short time.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I'll be back in a brace of shakes.”
“The waiter said our food would arrive in a brace of shakes, and it did.”
“She promised to return in a brace of shakes, but the minutes stretched into hours as we waited.”
Examples
simple
“I'll be back in a brace of shakes.”
contextual
“The waiter said our food would arrive in a brace of shakes, and it did.”
complex
“She promised to return in a brace of shakes, but the minutes stretched into hours as we waited.”
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