"Shake like a leaf" nghĩa là gì?

shake = cốc sữa trứng đã khuấy :) Photo courtesy Stewart Butterfield.

'Shake like a leaf' nghĩa là run bần bật, run toát mồ hôi, vì sợ (tremble greatly, especially from fear).

Ví dụ
He needed only a $15,000 mortgage to buy it, but even that made him "shake like a leaf" when it was approaching time to refix.

“I go to Birmingham and I shake like a leaf on a tree and I can’t stop, but when I come here, I have courage because I know that I have friends in you,”

It was his 21st birthday, Ground Hog Day, when an enemy rocket (tên lửa địch) struck his barracks (doanh trại). Mr. Schlegel said he was behind an outhouse when the rocket hit 3 feet from him on the other side of a line of waste drums (thùng chất thải, thùng rác). When the rocket exploded, the drums saved his life. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow what a birthday candle!’ It was a hell of a candle and a pretty disgusting (ghê tởm, kinh tởm) cake,” he joked, referring to the latrine (nhà xí) and the barrels of waste that exploded around him. The memory of that scary (kinh hoàng, rùng rợn) moment continued to plague (ám ảnh) him, but now his guitar is his coping mechanism, he said. “The first couple of episodes, you shake like a leaf, but over time you harden and get used to it,” he said. “PTSD (rối loạn stress sau sang chấn) knows no boundaries, no race, no gender, and anyone can end up with it.”

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