英语词汇no great shakes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

no great shakes. That monument of noncomputerized scholarship, the great Oxford English Dictionary, suggests that this expression alludes to the shaking of dice. Someone who is no great shakes is nothing extraordinary, like a gambler who shakes the dice and throws a low point—no sevens or elevens. Considering its first recorded use, the expression must have been known as early as the 17th century. Lord Broughton, re- calling an 1816 art show in his Recollections of a Long Life (1865), wrote: “W. said that a piece of sculpture there was ‘nul- lae magnae quassationes,’ and the others laughed heartily.” The others, proficient linguists, got the joke immediately when they translated the Latin for no great shakes. Another sugges- tion is that the expression derives from the provincial word shake, “to brag”—according to this highly improbable theory someone who is no great shakes would be nothing to brag about.

词汇	no great shakes
词源	no great shakes. That monument of noncomputerized scholarship, the great Oxford English Dictionary, suggests that this expression alludes to the shaking of dice. Someone who is no great shakes is nothing extraordinary, like a gambler who shakes the dice and throws a low point—no sevens or elevens. Considering its first recorded use, the expression must have been known as early as the 17th century. Lord Broughton, re- calling an 1816 art show in his Recollections of a Long Life (1865), wrote: “W. said that a piece of sculpture there was ‘nul- lae magnae quassationes,’ and the others laughed heartily.” The others, proficient linguists, got the joke immediately when they translated the Latin for no great shakes. Another sugges- tion is that the expression derives from the provincial word shake, “to brag”—according to this highly improbable theory someone who is no great shakes would be nothing to brag about.
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