Idiom
shiver me timbers
Meaning
A sarcastic remark indicating that the speaker is not scared.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He threatened to fire me, but shiver me timbers, I am not afraid.”
“When the boss warned us about the new strict rules, my coworker whispered, shiver me timbers, as if we were actually worried.”
“The villain boasted of his fearsome reputation, yet the hero merely replied with a mocking shiver me timbers, unimpressed by the empty display of power.”
Examples
simple
“He threatened to fire me, but shiver me timbers, I am not afraid.”
contextual
“When the boss warned us about the new strict rules, my coworker whispered, shiver me timbers, as if we were actually worried.”
complex
“The villain boasted of his fearsome reputation, yet the hero merely replied with a mocking shiver me timbers, unimpressed by the empty display of power.”
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