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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

To give somebody a shake

Mr Dursley gave himself a little shake.

What is the meaning of that?
  

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I think to give sb a shake is like to give sb a fair shake - an American informal idiom: a fair treatment that gives you the same chance as sb else.

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  • I think to give sb a shake is like to give sb a fair shake - an American informal idiom: a fair treatment that gives you the same chance as sb else.
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I think to give sb a shake is like to give sb a fair shake - an American informal idiom: a fair treatment that gives you the same chance as sb else.
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The full sentence is: Mr Dursley gave himself a little shake and put the cat out of his mind.

Does it mean that he shook his head a bit and snapped back to reality or wtaever he was doing before???
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That sounds fine, maybe it's right.
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give someone a shake - (coll.) 1. shake a sleeper to rouse him: She thought he might fall asleep standing there and grabbed his arm to give him a shake.
2. rouse a person to action: Danny was not playing as well as he is now at the start of the season. We needed some way to give him a shake and he has responded really well.
3. make smb. suffer a nervous shock: It gave me such a shake a

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