It is what they call shaking off the yoke, and they try to imitate this. From Wordnik.com. [Pascal's Pensées] Reference
Flight attendant: “Well, the shaking is the turbulence that the plane is flying through, and the noise is coming from the engines.”. From Wordnik.com. [“The Customer is Not Always Right: Hilarious and Horrific Tales of Customers Gone Wrong” by A. J. Adams (Andrews MacMeel Publishing, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
The AAP memo states shaking is dangerous to children as old as 5. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: October 9, 2005 - October 15, 2005 Archives] Reference
The mystery of ecstatic shaking has been called shaking medicine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
As of nightfall, Centre Court still was shaking from the experience. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Elements collide, create tennis match for the ages] Reference
Walked the final 20 yards to my stand and climbed in shaking for awhile. From Wordnik.com. [Most dangerous situation while hunting] Reference
He condescended to do something which he called shaking hands with me.”. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
So the amount of shaking is nowhere near the 1000x that Mr. Yglesias heard. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Chile Earthquake] Reference
Not really , today we call the shaking of the Earth the Schumann Resonance. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » In June, Hoekstra And Santorum Insisted ‘We Found WMD In Iraq,’ Hoekstra Now Says ‘I Don’t Know’] Reference
In my bikini, shaking from the cold and from anger, I screamed back at them. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Fridkis: Why My Non-Jewish Fiancé and I Make the Best Jewish Match] Reference
SIEGEL: And the way you measure the speed of shaking is by hertz, by cycles per second. From Wordnik.com. [Student Derives Formula For Optimum Dog Drying] Reference
My husband used to come in shaking his head at half nine saying ‘you are such a pushover’. From Wordnik.com. [My Son In Books « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Lou Anders, when he's not moving and shaking, is talking about Batman in The Brave and the Bold. From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 12/13/08] Reference
But no amount of head-shaking is going to change the fact that computers, by and large, get connected. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
As he rode past Locust, he took solid satisfaction in shaking his fist at the light in an upper window. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Colonel] Reference
The man launched into a long diatribe in Arabic, shaking his fist and spitting out President Bush's name. From Wordnik.com. [A Good Time To Be An American In Egypt?] Reference
As the shaking is to be total, so shall the removal be, making way for the better things that are unremovable. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
They are once again shaking things up by injecting new and colorful elements into the traditional funeral rite. From Wordnik.com. [The Boomer Blog: November 2007 Archives] Reference
In the solidly built old houses, which, fortunately, most hospitals are, the noise and shaking is comparatively trifling. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
For the elevation of oneself or anything else above the earth, or by the use of the hands, we call shaking (pallein), or dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Cratylus] Reference
I can remember once, when father lost a horse, that mother insisted in shaking out all the hens 'nests and giving them new nests. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference
The part that I have trouble shaking is the fact that I was on a plane that morning, but my plane was headed to Atlanta from Greensboro. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · Grief, and its kin.] Reference
He condescended to do something which he called shaking hands with me. ". From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference
And yet I love the idea of shaking this document up. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Principles and Purposes redux.] Reference
Teen Patti, I liked the idea of shaking up my perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Still, the shaking is a new thing, and it soon occurs again. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
WASHINGTON - It wasn't what you'd call shaking the pillars of the temple. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
For a moment she conceived the idea of shaking them all by the hand like a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
If there's a near-shore earthquake, the shaking is your warning to run to higher ground. From Wordnik.com. [OPB News] Reference
Barbara: This is Barbara last name? again, recall the shaking and the entire Newbery Committee. From Wordnik.com. [Shannon Hale's Reaction to her Newbery Honor] Reference
CAFFERTY: Well, you can see it's kind of shaking there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005] Reference
It's a number that just -- leaves you kind of shaking your head. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2004] Reference
Until 1999 an interrogation technique called "shaking" was legal. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Think About Torture] Reference
This is performed by some mechanical means, such as shaking and brushing. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
And I saw Lauren Howard, psychotherapist, kind of shaking her head a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference
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