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in a few shakes

in a few shakes prepositional phrase: synonym of in two shakes.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Synonym of in two shakes.
    • “And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    in two shakes

Synonyms of in a few shakes

Questions about in a few shakes

What does in a few shakes mean?
In a few shakes means synonym of in two shakes.
What part of speech is in a few shakes?
In a few shakes is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in a few shakes in the dictionary

  1. in a couple of shakes
  2. in a crack
  3. in a dither
  4. in a fair way
  5. in a family way
  6. in a few shakes
  7. in a fix
  8. in a flap
  9. in a flash
  10. in a flat spin
  11. in a foam

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