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The declared field so far is no great shakes—the Republican lieutenant governor and a Democratic state representative.

I know you think you're terrific great shakes, and that you live under the eternal insult of working in a factory.

I can't 288 see any great shakes, myself, in playing about with a girl when you're engaged to some one else.

For a needle and thread were not always at hand, and at any rate Charley was no great shakes at the needle.

"Now, don't make no great shakes out o' me, Miss Maria," he pleaded.

Ulyth can take what I've got at school—'twon't be any great shakes to her, I expect.

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