For the libertines and polyamorous overachievers among us, it's probably no great shakes.
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Thirteen percent is no great shakes when it comes to any population of voters.
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Which is salutary, because the actual mystery component of the movie is no great shakes.
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" Mr. Kristol said his affection for the train was partly tongue-in-cheek, calling it "no great shakes.
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"I do have my high school yearbook picture — which is no great shakes," he added with a grin.
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And while I appreciate the trimmed-down bezels surrounding the 215-inch display, the screen itself is no great shakes.
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Reviews of the Parisian opening were mixed, partly because Rubinstein, who performed the role of the Fairy, was no great shakes as a dancer.
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Griff stole their desserts on multiple occasions—swiped from trays with a grin—even if the desserts in question were no great shakes; it was the principle.
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The diversity visa, which Trump has proposed killing in exchange for a path to citizenship for DREAMers, is, indeed, no great shakes and could fairly easily be replaced by something better.
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"I do have my high school yearbook picture, which is no great shakes," he joked to laughter from the crowd, which included some famous faces like Tom Hanks, wife Rita Wilson and Steven Spielberg.
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Her love interest here, the tenor Marco Berti, is no great shakes, but Anita Hartig is an up-and-comer to watch (and hear) as the suffering Liu, and Paolo Carignani is a skilled veteran at Puccini's sumptuous score.
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As a story, The Blue Umbrella is no great shakes — it's about a boy doggedly pursuing a pretty girl he saw once on the street, and it might read as borderline creepy if the characters involved were not inanimate objects.
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The adventure plot in the Brazilian feature "Tito and the Birds," directed by Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, and André Catoto, is no great shakes — it wouldn't be out of place on a Saturday-morning cartoon — but visually, the movie leaves room for the viewer to synthesize, and to dream.
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So-called "workfare" schemes as implemented by conservative state and local officials in the late 1990s were no great shakes, and however much jobs guarantee proponents may protest that they have something else entirely in mind, the reality is that reliance on decentralized administration by state and local entities is at the core of their proposals.
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Yet the results are still soft enough that Donald J. Trump has plenty of ground for attack on the state of the economy as the Obama administration nears its end: There is that uptick in the unemployment rate, the 156,000 jobs added are no great shakes, a broader measure of unemployment remains at 9.7 percent, and the ratio of Americans working remains significantly lower than eight years ago.
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In 2008, she performed the female lead role in the action film Jalsa, directed by Trivikram Srinivas. D'Cruz received largely positive remarks, with critics citing that she looked "pretty",Review: Jalsa is no great shakes . Rediff.com.
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It was a lousy course, quite frankly. Bloom sat next to me > on my left and would make little comments to me on the text, comments which > I found more interesting than Festugiere's. Those teachers, outstanding as > their reputation may have been, were no great shakes. > At first I was a little bit shocked by Bloom's remarks.
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William Ruhlmann on Allmusic.com gave the album two and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented on Martin's country music style writing that "The new songs, as usual arranged in a style that would define them as country music if they had been recorded in Nashville by a singer with more of a twang in his voice, were no great shakes".
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She also appeared in the 1931 Gershwin musical Delicious with Janet Gaynor. She then went to Britain where she starred in two of James Mason's earlier films, including Troubled Waters, which turned out to be her last film. None of these later films were hits, and she gave up her film career, claiming that she was "no great shakes as an actress."Pace, Eric.
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Weird Wild Realm gave the movie a mixed review, praising Madsen and Hauer's performances and concluding: "Lying in Wait falls halfway between a conventional thriller & an arthouse film. As a low-budget straight-to-video feature it's no great shakes but it has an attractive cast. Madsen is sexy as they get in her role. Hauer's performance in such quick moments when his gaze switches from lackluster half-consciousness, to sharp knowing glance, is startling throughout".
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The film has received mixed reviews with review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes giving it a rating of 67% "fresh" and Metacritic having an average score of 45 out of 100, based on 5 reviews. The Hollywood Reporter called it an "infomercial passing itself off a documentary". The New York Times stated that the film is "no great shakes as a movie, but as an ad for Mr. Cross's wellness program its now-healthy heart is in the right place".
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TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars and called it an "Average comedy"; in the Radio Times, David McGillivray also rated the film two out of five stars, calling it "no great shakes as comedy, but interesting as a vehicle built around a much-loved British star at the end of his career" whereas Britmovie noted, "Twenty years after appearing on stage in this lively Rex Frost play, in his penultimate film Gordon Harker reprises the role of a belligerent hotel waiter having to use all his wit and cunning to save his job. This low-budget film features Harker in typically jovial form, dominating comic proceedings with typical polished expertise, and with a less assured cast this thin comedy wouldn’t be worthwhile. There are early roles for Billie Whitelaw and Janet Munro, and the doughty Irene Handl is cast as the hotel’s spirited cook." It was one of 15 films selected by Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane in The British 'B' Film, their survey of British B films, as among the most meritorious of the B films made in Britain between World War II and 1970.
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