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Sentence examples for shaking a leg from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Shake a leg.

To go fast, hurry.

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But talking heads – including Shirley Williams and Christopher Hitchens – are choreographed here, and no one escapes shaking a leg.

He is seated at a corner table in the cavernous breakfast room of the Pierre hotel, across the street from Central Park, shaking a leg nervously and whispering in a conspiratorial hush.

The point is, dance crazes are often just that momentary blips on the cultural landscape, bizarre moments in time when we collectively agree to delude ourselves into shaking a leg and actually enjoying it.

It'll either be some red-faced systems analyst who likes to have his own tie stuffed down his gob by a matron at that creepy school dinners place just off Oxford Street, a bloke in a panda-suit giggling his way through Rochdale town centre en route to meet the region's five other fur-fanatics, or two lads in flares shaking a leg down the front at of Magic Door.

Another hero was Angela Carter, whose journalism and other writings Uglow edited into a collection entitled Shaking a Leg.

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"Platt, shake a leg".

AC/DC advised you to shake a leg.

Black Sun announced the desire of the London underground to shake a leg once again.

All he had to sing was, "Rock-bop-bop-bop, baby, ow!" and shake a leg, and he was still a defiant Don Juan.

And let's face it, most of us need some Dutch courage to shake a leg in front of complete strangers at 8.30pm on a school night.

When at last the comedy of love's confusions begins to animate the proceedings, the production casts off its shroud and begins to shake a leg.

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