in a few shakes

Meanings

prepositional phrase

Synonym of in two shakes.
“And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
Synonyms: in two shakes

prepositional phraseSynonym of in two shakes.

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