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English Idiom: Shake in your boots
This will make you shake in your boots.
Imagine it’s a lovely Sunday morning in summer.
You decide to take a stroll in the forest before breakfast.
The day is cool before the sun’s heat increases, and as you follow a winding path through the trees, you enjoy the beautiful sound of birdsong.
The trail leaves the forest; you come out onto the African savannah and are greeted by…
… a lioness.
You are no longer happy and content.
The day is no longer beautiful; you can no longer hear the birdsong, and you are shaking in your boots.
You are scared!
The idiom shake in your boots means to be very afraid.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is simple and easy to read.
It’s likely to be understood by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.