great shakes

Its overall handling of mental illness is no great shakes either.

"The building may not look any great shakes, but what takes place within it is still a wonder to me."

Their two previous quarterfinal duels at Roland Garros were actually no great shakes.

A third of the way in, we’ve already seen Kong use sign language, shower and scratch himself; Godzilla lay waste to a swath of Pensacola, Fla.; and the two wage a slugfest at sea, with Godzilla’s tail slicing through ships and Kong, no great shakes as a swimmer, struggling mightily out of his element.

My game wasn’t any great shakes, but it was decent enough that I could masquerade as a golfer.