"not in great shakes"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon May 22 03:45:25 UTC 2006


According to Mike Francesa, on his WNBC sports recap show tonight,
the Mets pitching "is not in great shakes".  Evident blend of "no
great shakes" and "not in great shape".

LH

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