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.