| 单词 | mover and shaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmover and shaker c. colloquial (originally U.S.). A person who initiates events and influences people; a dynamic and influential person. Chiefly in mover and shaker (after quot. 1873). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > initiator openerOE first beginninga1382 first beginner?1473 starter1662 initiator1676 mover1873 launcher1897 initiand1969 1873 A. O'Shaughnessy in Appletons' Jrnl. 4 Oct. 440/3 Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. 1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 431/2 I know that Chicagoans boast that theirs is the most mixed population in the country, but the makers and movers of Chicago are Americans. 1972 F. Knebel Dark Horse (1973) ix. 124 The rich movers and shakers..always manage to manipulate the Congress for their own benefit and screw the rest of us. 1987 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 18 Jan. 102/2 Eddie Murphy is back doing what he does best—playing a streetwise mover caught up in events beyond him. 2000 Daily Tel. 1 Mar. 21/5 The Monte Carlo hotel restaurant [is] filled with actors and assorted movers and shakers attending the annual television festival. mover and shaker a. One who or something which shakes (in the transitive senses of the verb). Also in mover and shaker, shaker and mover (U.S.), a person who influences events, a person who gets things done. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > action of shaking something > one who or that which shakes something shakerc1440 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schakare, excussor. 1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 149 Sic knavis & crakkaris..Sic heland schekkaris [a1586 Maitl. F. haland schaikaris]. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 35 Who were..cunning shakers of the staffe to hit their foe a farre. a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 758 Land lowper, light skowper..Halland shaker, draught raiker. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vii. 104 Thou mightie shaker of the earth, thou Lord of all the seas. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 711 Strangers..scarsely in twentie daies, with great care, can shake off this Shaker [sc. ague]. 1785 Jrnl. fr. London 4 (Jam.) Staakin about like a hallen-shaker. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I and a whin hallen-shakers like mysell. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. xxxiv The Marquis was no shaker of hands. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington vi. 11 O shaker of the Baltic and the Nile. 1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 1 Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. 1901 F. H. Skrine Life Sir W. W. Hunter xxi. 452 The fortune made in India by the Thackerays and other shakers of the pagoda-tree. 1972 F. Knebel Dark Horse (1973) ix. 124 The rich movers and shakers..always manage to manipulate the Congress for their own benefit and screw the rest of us. 1975 J. F. Burke Death Trick iv. 61 Beniamino Tucci was..known as the Little Godfather of the Upper West Side. A mover and shaker with many interests. 1977 Time 10 Oct. 1/2 Perish the thought that a shaker and mover should work for the Government. < as lemmas |
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