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shake in one's shoes

shake in one's shoes is the alternative form of quake in one's boots.

Meaning of quake in one's boots

Verb

quake in one's boots (third-person singular simple present quakes in one's boots, present participle quaking in one's boots, simple past and past participle quaked in one's boots)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To be very frightened, scared, or nervous.
    • The thought of climbing that high had him quaking in his boots.

Forms of shake in one's shoes

third-person singular presentshakes in one's shoes
present participleshaking in one's shoes
pastshook in one's shoes
past participleshaken in one's shoes

Questions about shake in one's shoes

What is shake in one's shoes the alternative form of?
Shake in one's shoes is the alternative form of quake in one's boots.

Words near shake in one's shoes in the dictionary

  1. shake hands
  2. shake hands with the milkman
  3. shake hands with the unemployed
  4. shake hole
  5. shake in one's boots
  6. shake in one's shoes
  7. shake it
  8. shake it up
  9. shake like a leaf
  10. shake map
  11. shake maps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shake in one's shoes (page history and authors); quake in one's boots (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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