Idiom
no great shakes
Meaning
Something unexceptional, not noteworthy or special.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The new restaurant is no great shakes.”
“I tried the new action movie everyone likes, but I thought it was no great shakes.”
“Although the critics praised the author's latest novel, I found the plot to be no great shakes compared to his earlier work.”
Examples
simple
“The new restaurant is no great shakes.”
contextual
“I tried the new action movie everyone likes, but I thought it was no great shakes.”
complex
“Although the critics praised the author's latest novel, I found the plot to be no great shakes compared to his earlier work.”
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