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all shook up

Greatly disturbed or upset, as in His letter left her all shook up. This slangy idiom uses shook instead of the grammatically correct “shaken” (for “agitated”) and adds all for emphasis. [Second half of 1900s]

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It’s now or never for this week’s Slate News Quiz, but don’t get all shook up.

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Democrats are so accustomed to losing statewide elections in blood-red Mississippi that they hardly get all shook up about a candidate for governor anymore.

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Was close to leaving rivals all shook up before fading to finish sixth in last year's Irish Grand National.

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This is where things get all shook up.

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“We’re all shook up by this event,” resident Reyna Diaz, 67, said through tears.

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