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1 shake in one's shoes
дpoжaть, тpяcтиcь oт cтpaxa (cp. oт cтpaxa пoджилки тpяcутcя; душa в пятки ушлa)Putting by every year, at compound interest, he had doubled his capital in forty years without having once known what it was like to shake in his shoes over money matters (J. Galsworthy)