no great shakes
not very good:
并不太好的，不怎么样的，并不高明的I'mafraidI am nogreatshakesasacook/atcooking!恐怕我做饭不太在行！
Inability and awkwardness
- accident-prone
- adorkable
- all thumbsidiom
- amateurish
- amateurishly
- for toffeeidiom
- fumble
- functional illiteracy
- gauche
- geek
- jack-of-all-trades
- jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
- klutzy
- like a bull in a china shopidiom
- lost
- unable
- uncoordinated
- uneducable
- unenterprising
- unequal
Examplesofno great shakes
no great shakes
We should be teaching our daughters that having children on their own is no prize andnogreatshakes.
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The common position is alsonogreatshakesfrom an environmental viewpoint.
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The local train and bus services arenogreatshakes.
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It has beennogreatshakesfor the past two or three years.
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Let us be clear that our economic prospects in the manufacturing sector arenogreatshakes.
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So it isnogreatshakes.
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Those teachers, outstanding as their reputation may have been, werenogreatshakes.
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