no great shakes

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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]

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