great shakes

Idioms  

1. see no great shakes.

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Example Sentences

Its overall handling of mental illness is no great shakes either.

From Los Angeles Times

"The building may not look any great shakes, but what takes place within it is still a wonder to me."

From BBC

Their two previous quarterfinal duels at Roland Garros were actually no great shakes.

From New York Times

A third of the way in, we’ve already seen Kong use sign language, shower and scratch himself; Godzilla lay waste to a swath of Pensacola, Fla.; and the two wage a slugfest at sea, with Godzilla’s tail slicing through ships and Kong, no great shakes as a swimmer, struggling mightily out of his element.

From New York Times

My game wasn’t any great shakes, but it was decent enough that I could masquerade as a golfer.

From Los Angeles Times