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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010Vachss: shake it
Hello: "Shake it" does it mean "dispense of it" or "advertise it" [for someone to take it]? --- [P.I. Burke doesn't quite want to take this job from this woman] "Look, lady, you asked me to talk to you, okay? This is the way we do it. You don't like it, you take whatever business you have and you shake it on down the road." Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 79 ---- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 79 >---- It means walk away with your hindquarters jiggling. A contemptuous dismissal.  SignatureJohn >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > It means walk away with your hindquarters jiggling. A contemptuous > dismissal. Possibly with the implication that her business down the road is as a prostitute, and she is shaking her backside to attract customers. SignatureCheryl > >> "Shake it" > >> does it mean [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Possibly with the implication that her business down the road is as a > prostitute, and she is shaking her backside to attract customers. Thank you both. Marius Hancu >> >> "Shake it" >> >> does it mean [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> a >> prostitute, and she is shaking her backside to attract customers. I agree with the idea expressed by Cheryl and John, but also find the term recalls "shake a leg", which meant "hurry up", or "hurry on down the road". http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shake-a-leg.html > >> >> "Shake it" > >> >> does it mean [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shake-a-leg.html Thanks. Marius Hancu >> >> >> "Shake it" >> >> >> does it mean [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Thanks. > Marius Hancu from the bit provided it sounds like the woman wants to hire the man, a PI maybe, and shewanted to discuss things in a more discreet location He is telling her this is where he does business, and if she doesn't like it she can leave. >>> "Shake it" >>> does it mean [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Possibly with the implication that her business down the road is as > a prostitute, and she is shaking her backside to attract customers. A fine point. I think, myself, that the adverbial "on" indicates that she is being told to move (shake her a.s) away (down) along (on) the road, not to solicit trade when she arrives at her spot (down the road). That is not to say that the insinuation might still not be there, only that it isn't implicit in the structure of the sentence. John Diefenbaker once allowed that his party rival, Flora MacDonald, was the finest woman who ever walked the streets of Kingston. |
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