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shake it

Date: Sep 07 2000

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“I vowed to never play that guy from Boston mainly because
I didn’t want to get that accent back. It’s only because
I worked so hard to shake it.”

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

shake it * (v.) 1) to get rid of it
2) to free oneself from it
3) to stop doing it
4) to get away from it

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2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Shake it * is most often used in regard to habits. If you
have bad habits, you want to shake them. However, it
can also be used in regard to other people. If someone is
and you don’t want him to, then you want to shake him*.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“I’ve been smoking cigarettes for over five years. I know it’s”

“a bad habit, but I just can’t shake it. – or – That car has been following us for the last ten minutes. I’m”

“going to try to shake him. Put on your seatbelt!”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

“I think the expression ‘to shake it’ means ‘to get rid of the trace of something.’ At least, I guess so.”
by Eric (Chinhae, Kyungsangnamdo, South Korea)
“I think shake something means to free yourself from that or put it away.”
by Anahita (Tehran, Iran)
“I guess ‘shake it’ means u want to get rid of something nasty, as if it’s sticking onto your body.”
by Amy
“Of course ‘to shake it’ means ‘to get rid of it’ or, in other words, to make it disappear, to make it not exist. I think, you can use these words while talking about bad habits too.”
by Taras (Montreal, Canada)
“As for me, ‘shake it’ in that context means ‘make it disappear.’”
by Gabriele (Lecce, Puglia, Italy)
“I think ‘shake it’ here means what to get rid of something, or don’t want to bring something back again.”
by Sarah (Hong Kong, China)
”’Shake it’ means to get rid of something. In this case, the actor had the Boston accent and tried very very hard to get rid of it. He had to shake it as he didn’t want it!”
by Angelee (Hong Kong, China)

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