Come and take a shakedown at my house—a bed. The allusion is to the time when men slept upon litter or clean straw. (See below, Shakes.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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