NO GREAT SHAKES

Definition: NO GREAT SHAKES

NO GREAT SHAKES

1. Of no great importance. [Slang] --Byron.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Commonalty

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Imperfection

Mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of; one-horse shay.

Smallness

Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.

Unimportance

Nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; Adjective:; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel.

Crosswords: NO GREAT SHAKES

Expression using "NO GREAT SHAKES": be no great shakes. Additional references.

Hungarian

nem vmi nagy ügy. (various references)

Pig Latin

onay eatgray akesshay

Romanian

nu face multe parale (be no great shakes). (various references)

Russian 

нестоящий (trifling, unworthy), неважный (importless, inconsiderable, not much of a, of no consequence, of no great importance, so so, unimportant). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: arsenates, earstones, estragons, estranges, estrogens, greatness, hasteners, katharses, keratoses, knotgrass, otherness, resonates, sangarees, serenatas, sergeants, shagreens, shortages, teargases.

-5 letters: aerosats, agaroses, antheses, arsenate, assenter, assentor, earnests, earshots, earstone, estragon, estrange, estrogen, estrones, ethnoses, gastreas, gheraoes, grantees, greatens, greenths, hastener, hearkens, heartens, hektares, hetaeras, hoarsens, hoarsest, honester, hostages, keratose, kerogens, khanates, negaters, negators.