shake sb out of sth
— phrasal verb with shake uk/ʃeɪk/us/ʃeɪk/verb shook, shaken
to stop someone from feeling a particular way by shocking them, frightening them, or making them suddenly understand something:
A sudden noise shook him out of his daydream.
We need something to happen that will shake people out of their apathy.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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Making people sad, shocked and upset