How's it shaking?

0 Hi, 02br
00I've never heard anyone say this. 02br
00I have, however, heard 'What's shaking?' as a slang expression meaning 'What's happening?" It's like "Hello, how are you?". There's nothing vulgar or sexual about it. 02br
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00Best wishes, 02br
00Clive 0-

0 Thank you for your asnwer. 0-

0 How would you normally respond to "what's shaking" ?? 0-

0 Lol, who would have thought it to have sexual connotations? 0-

0 LC1: Eddie Fontaine, Ain't Nothin Shakin: 02br
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00We meet the gang 02br
00And go to Rocking Joe's 02br
00The cats are stompin 02br
00On their heels and toes 02br
00I grab my baby 02br
00Try to give her a squeeze 02br
00There's nothing shakin 02br
00But the leaves on the trees 02br

0 It appears to be a colloquial substitution for "happening". 02br
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00Nothin's shakin' = Nothing is happening. 02br
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00How's it shaking? = What is happening? What's going on? 02br
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00"Street talk". 0-

It may derive form the 20's or 30's style of dress the ladies wore, the Betty Boo style with tassle's and beads and Bee-Bop dance, shaking all over the place?

"How's it shaking" is a very common slang expression in America, and regardless of it's origins, it is not vulgar here. The same can be said of "How's it hanging?" It may have it's origins in discussing male genitals, but it is now a phrase that I hear on a regular basis in public with no controversy.