great shakes
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Its overall handling of mental illness is no great shakes either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
"The building may not look any great shakes, but what takes place within it is still a wonder to me."
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
Inheriting a floundering Rainbow program, he turned it around to go 18-11 his last two years with a high-flying offense, though the Hawaii defense was no great shakes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
The film’s no great shakes, but Russell’s star power in “The Christmas Chronicles” is a gift anyone should be happy to claim.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2018
That gun was no great shakes when I bought it second-hand fifteen years ago, and it has never got any better.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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