shake down
phrasal verbshake down
- (informal) (of a new situation or arrangement) to become established
- Let's wait and see how everything shakes down.
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shake somebody/something down (North American English, informal)
- to search a person or place completely and very carefully related noun shakedown
- to threaten somebody in order to get money from them