shake in one's shoes

English

Verb

shake in one's shoes (third-person singular simple present shakes in one's shoes, present participle shaking in one's shoes, simple past shook in one's shoes, past participle shaken in one's shoes)

1. Alternative form of quake in one's boots.
   • 2016 May 17, Don Markus, “For Kent Desormeaux, Preakness is a welcome Maryland homecoming”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     “I’d be shaking in my shoes to ride in the Preakness,” said Desormeaux, who finished dead last in his first Preakness in 1988. “Now, not only have I won it twice [in 1998 on Real Quiet and in 2008 on Big Brown], I’ve lived life. I’ll be as cool as a cucumber in the saddle” with Exaggerator on Saturday.