VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Movers and Shakers

Meaning:

Influential people, especially in a particular field

Examples:

  • The rest of my stuff's on a moving truck, and I gave them your number. The company's called Movers and Shakers.
  • The Second Temple is for walkers, movers and shakers.
  • Must know the movers and shakers around here, huh?
  • My friends are movers and shakers now.
  • I guess I should have figured that out... movers and shakers and all.
  • I am now one of the movers and shakers in the world of nuclear non-proliferation.
  • Thirdly, as political movers and shakers we have to be frank with the people we represent.
  • Absolutely nobody among the movers and shakers in Washington believes the government's stated reason for the war.
  • Aviation Week asked me to make a list of who I thought were the movers and shakers of the first 100 years of aviation.
  • If we, the little spectators, can see this is happening, it most certainly cannot have escaped the observation of the movers and shakers in this world.