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movers and shakers

plural noun

  1. informal.
    the people with power and influence in a particular field of activity

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Word History and Origins

Origin of movers and shakers1

C20: perhaps from the line ``We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever'' in `Ode' by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–81), British poet

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