Knowing Your “Shakes” - Part 3

Continuing our series on exploring the word shake, let’s review a few more definitions of this word and show how it is used in different expressions in English. When someone "gets the shakes," this essentially means that they are trembling.

That horror movie really gave me the shakes. I have never been so afraid in my life | foto: Profimedia.cz

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This can be due to a variety of reasons: as the result of a chemical reaction to some sort of substance, it could be the result of temperature or weather; or it might even be in response to some dramatic or moving story, one that you read or see in a movie. Examples:

"That horror movie really gave me the shakes. I have never been so afraid in my life," or "The weather was so windy and icy, that we got a case of the shakes in only a few minutes."

In this latter example, a "case of the shakes" is simply another way of saying that a person was shaking from something, regardless of the cause which makes them do so.

"Shake and Bake"
The term "shake and bake" means to prepare something really quickly, and get it ready for consumption or viewing.

Over the past few years, this phrase has become a fairly generic expression, applied to any number of things which can be prepared instantly or quickly.

Its origins go back to an actual product called Shake ‘n Bake, which first became popular in 1966 in the United States.

As the graphics on the right show, this product (thus the inspiration for the term "shake and bake") derived from a seasoning which is sold in plastic bags. People would place their meat inside these bags, then shake them so that the coating covered the meat everywhere.

Next, they would remove the meat from this bag, and then put it into the oven to bake it, thus the term "shake and bake."

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