Sentence examples for shakes of a from inspiring English sources

(Mexican pork is quite tasty. I'd buy that in two shakes of a lamb's tail).

The rod immediately jerked downward, thumping in time to the head shakes of a nice perch.

And you'd be mad to think that our business competitors in Singapore and Silicon Valley give two shakes of a Samsung Galaxy about excessive phone usage.

If you were an elite designer, you spent 18 months preparing for this event that lasts for two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Cynthia, by email The short answer to your question, Cynthia, is yes, mos def, and we'll get to the whys and whens of this in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Alibis and testimony are conveyed through the routine device of the flashback, and the proceedings are considerably enlivened by the mutually insulting backchat of Sam Levene, a dumb police detective, and Van Heflin, a bland but cunning amateur sleuth.It's no great shakes of a picture nor even of a mystery, withal.

A shaggy shake of a sorrowful head.

I was awoken from a heavy sleep by the characteristic sly shaking of a tremor.

When delivering an ingratiating line, she applies a girlish voice with the shake of a bobblehead doll.

Only 11 of the houses "would probably withstand the shaking of a high magnitude temblor," they concluded.

But after another 20 minutes, she developed the uncontrollable shaking of a grand mal seizure and fell unconscious.