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Verb
shake in one's shoes (third-person singular simple present shakes in one's shoes, present participle shaking in one's shoes, simple past shook in one's shoes, past participle shaken in one's shoes)
- Alternative form of quake in one's boots.
2016 May 17, Don Markus, “For Kent Desormeaux, Preakness is a welcome Maryland homecoming”, in The Washington Post:“I’d be shaking in my shoes to ride in the Preakness,” said Desormeaux, who finished dead last in his first Preakness in 1988. “Now, not only have I won it twice [in 1998 on Real Quiet and in 2008 on Big Brown], I’ve lived life. I’ll be as cool as a cucumber in the saddle” with Exaggerator on Saturday.