to shake up
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4.3
- phrasal verb
- /ʃeɪk ʌp/
- Informal
:
reorganizar
- The new manager plans to shake up the team in order to enhance productivity.
But that's, that's what we need to, you know, shake this up.
- But that's, that's what we need to, you know, shake this up.
- If they're teasing you, shake it up by sending a voice memo back saying you're so mean.
- So then, are their claims completely baseless, or is this little device about to shake up the way you listen to music?
- Yeah, yeah, like shook up major things that needed to be rearranged.
- And now you've you've got a new experience that that starts to, you know, shake up your previously established system of beliefs.
- Eric Tenhog has come into the club, shook the place up.
- I think NVIDIA just caught everybody off guard and just shook the world up.
- It's the right time to just take life and shake it up a bit.
- And what I'm going to tell you is simply shaking up your routine is all that research says you need to do.
- And I know many people would see it differently, like shaking up the industries within and disrupting what's going on.
- He says Jack's the reason we gave you this job and the reason we're looking at you is you might shake this old place up.
- A lot of our understanding of ourselves would be shaken up or or questioned and it's a very difficult thing to ask.
- So so you know just kind of letting me get warmed up I'll shake it all up here grab the first thing I touch and it is from Avon.
- Young people being discriminated against or not being given the opportunity to have a voice in organizations that could use some shaking up.
- We kind of shook up that duo and kicked it upstairs.
Examples
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And I told Airey, I don't expect to win the leadership, but I am going to run, just to shake up the party.
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Feel free to comment, initiate discussion, and let's shake things up a bit!
Blog text (20) -
Maybe it's time to shake things up.
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Every couple of hundred years, I like to shake things up a bit.
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It's time to shake things up a little bit.
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You need to shake up his perfect little world.
Fiction book (2002) -
Do you need to shake up your routine once in a while?
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Merely changing your routine can be enough to shake things up for a bit.
Blog text (6) -
Jaguar has two cars on the way that are going to shake up the automotive world for sure.
Blog text (10) -
Why does Muller feel compelled to shake up the world of climate change?
Blog text (24)
Synonyms
56
4.4
Organize something in a new way so it works better
43
3.4
To change the way something is arranged to make it work better
26
4.2
Make big changes to try to create excitement or improvement
8
5.9
Change a plan or system to make it work better
To change how tasks and people work together in a project
Antonyms
How Extensive
55
6.6
35
4.6
- Informal
55
4.3
43
3.4
28
3.9
317
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to change or reorganize' is metaphorically connected to the literal sense of 'shake' (to jolt or disturb) combined with the particle 'up' (indicating alteration or intensification), so a learner who knows both words could plausibly infer a sense of disturbing and rearranging. However, the specific managerial/organizational sense is an extended, somewhat conventionalized metaphor and not fully predictable from the parts without prior exposure.
Etymology
Shake up may come from the idea of shaking a box so its parts move and the order changes. When leaders 'shake up' a company they move people and change the order, so it means 'to change or reorganize'.