no great shakes

没有什么了不起的没有什么大不了的没有什么大的影响

no great shakes 的定义

  1. Nothing out of the ordinary, mediocre, as in I'm afraid the new pitcher is no great shakes, or What I did with this decorating project was no great shakes. This term possibly alludes to the shaking of dice, which most often yields a mediocre result, but there is no evidence to support this theory. [Early 1800s]

no great shakes 近义词

no great shakes

等同于 garden-variety

no great shakes

等同于 mediocre

no great shakes

等同于 ordinary

no great shakes

等同于 undistinguished

no great shakes

等同于 unexceptional

更多no great shakes例句

  1. Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
  2. It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
  3. Unfortunately, this is more about protecting the legacy of a ‘great man.’
  4. Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
  5. “He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.
  6. "Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
  7. I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
  8. After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.
  9. The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
  10. This is a feature by means of which it is always possible to distinguish the Great Horsetail from any other species.