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81between two shakes of a lamb's tail — See: BEFORE ONE CAN SAY JACK ROBINSON …
82A Major Earthquake Shakes China's Sichuan Province — ▪ 2009 On May 12, 2008, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake brought enormous devastation to the mountainous central region of Sichuan province in southwestern China. The epicentre was in the city of Wenchuan, and some 80% of the structures in the area… …
83brace of shakes — noun a) The time taken for a sail to shake or shiver twice as a ship comes into the wind. b) A very short time …
84two shakes — Synonyms and related words: a breath, bit, breath, coup, crack, flash, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, little, little bit, little while, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, no time, pair of winks …
85In a brace of shakes — immediately …
86In two shakes — a very short time …
87In two shakes of a lamb's tail — really soon …
88Two shakes — very short time; minute …
89in a brace of shakes — Australian Slang immediately …
90in two shakes — Australian Slang a very short time …