"Quaking in your boots" nghĩa là gì?

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"Quaking in one's boots" = đi giày vẫn run -> nghĩa là rất sợ hãi về chuyện sắp xảy đến.

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This big, ugly dog was growling (gầm gừ) at me and baring (để lộ) its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!

She may have fallen, but she could — and did — get up. She sat up straight and exclaimed, “Wrong shoes!” (To which her stylist certainly started quaking in her boots backstage.) Then it was on with the show, which included an intimate chat with singer-actress Jennifer Lopez.

Fair readers, stop quaking in your boots about the future of America or too many thumbs addicted to screens or the dreaded (đáng sợ) notion that The Greatest Generation might never be replicated again, because there’s Lauren, grinding it out (nghiền, nạo ra) at Caledonia High School, on the golf course, as a volunteer, while mentoring – and in her recent past, battling pain and grief that most of us will never experience.

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