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SHAKE SOMEONE UP definition: 1. If an unpleasant experience shakes someone up, it makes them feel shocked and upset: 2. to…. Learn more.
shake someone or something up. to jostle or knock someone or something around; to toss someone or something back and forth. We rode over a rough road, and that shook us up. The accident shook up John quite a bit. See also: shake, up.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English shake somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verb 1 to give someone a very unpleasant shock, so that they feel very upset and frightened She was badly shaken up by the accident. → shaken 2 to make changes to an organization in order to make it more effective SYN overhaul the government’s plans to shake up...
shake someone or something up. to jostle or knock someone or something around; to toss someone or something back and forth. We rode over a rough road, and that shook us up.
If an unpleasant experience shakes someone up, it makes them feel shocked and upset: The accident really shook him up. (Definition of shake sb up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
What does the idiom Shake up (someone) shake (someone) up mean? The meaning, explanation, and origin of idiom Shake up (someone) shake (someone) up
shake somebody up jump to other results to surprise someone and make them think about something in a different way, become more active, etc. Shaken up by the early goal against them, the team began to fight back.