mover and shaker
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- noun
- /ˈmuːvər ənd ˈʃeɪkər/
- Literature
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persona influyente
- She has become a key mover and shaker in the local tech industry, driving innovation and change.
- movers and shakers of the community
But you know, Sean, we are movers and shakers.
- But you know, Sean, we are movers and shakers.
- And it's a club of artists and movers and shakers and I mean, classic New York club kind of thing.
- But if they push out all the producers, innovators, creators, movers and shakers, there's no one left to make anything, build anything, solve anything.
- And that is how I crafted my company, Red Hot Mist with Red Hot Mover and Shaker.
- They're kind of, you know, up and coming, you know, mover and shaker types, Malaytus, Anteus and a few others.
- The meek are, you know, certainly not the Ballers and movers and shakers and egomaniacs and the, you know, the people who run the world.
- I think that many of the movers and shakers in the world have an innately aggressive they, they like to seize the initiative.
Examples
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Of the pair, Trapper John was the mover and shaker, also a bit of a showman.
Fiction book (2001) -
Learn more about these movers and shakers and others who are having a profound impact on our world.
Academic text (2016) -
And it's a club of artists and movers and shakers and I mean, classic New York club kind of thing.
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If you come as my date, you can meet the movers and shakers.
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Every sports community loves its movers and shakers.
Academic text (2009) -
I follow the movers and shakers.
Academic text (2014) -
I'm quite a mover and shaker in the art world.
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King had always liked being a mover and shaker in Trinity Harbor.
Fiction book (2001) -
If you wanna meet movers and shakers, Mr. Sportscaster, that is where to hang.
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Horowitz is the key; he is the main mover and shaker in terms of channeling funding to these people.
Blog text (17)
Synonyms
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A person who makes big changes and influences people
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A person whose actions or ideas strongly affect other people's choices
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A person who leads and inspires others in a cause
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A person or company that causes big change in an industry
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4.3
A person who works to make positive change in a community or organization
Antonyms
How Influential
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'mover' and 'shaker' evoke literal actions (one who moves, one who shakes) that metaphorically combine to mean someone who gets things moving and disrupts the status quo; this gives a plausible route for a learner to infer an agentive, change-making sense. However, the conventionalized collocation and the specific sense 'influential person who makes things happen' is an idiomatic extension and not fully predictable from the parts alone, so prior exposure helps.
Etymology
The phrase mover and shaker comes from the clear image of a person who moves things into place and shakes things up to get results. So, picturing someone pushing and shaking things helps you remember it means 'an important, active person who makes things happen'.