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Meaning shrug meaning

What does shrug mean?
Definitions in simple English

shrug Verb

— If you shrug your shoulders, you raise and then lower them in order to say you do not know or are not interested. Where's Dad?" "How should I know?" replied my brother, shrugging.

shrug Noun

— A shrug is the action of raising your shoulders and then lowering them in order to say you don't know or are not interested. Liam responded with an uninterested shrug.

shrug

— verb raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation — noun a gesture involving the shoulders

Synonyms shrug synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as shrug?

shrug English » English

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Topics shrug topics

What do people use shrug to talk about?
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Gesture
Physical actions Posture

Move a part of the body
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Ignore
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Indifferent
Social behavior Behavior Love

Not care

Conjugation shrug conjugation

How do you conjugate shrug?

shrug · verb

Examples shrug examples

How do I use shrug in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

But your Highness you cannot dismiss an offer of ten million Dollars with a shrug of your shoulder.
Why not? I had to dismiss something far more important than that with a shrug of my shoulder.
But make me to sit down and talk in whispers of this and that.. with an emphasis here and a shrug, and I'm soon confounded and defeated.
You think you can shrug it off, do you?
Such quiet courage is typical Of the way these brave chaps shrug off danger.
All the Foreign Office does is shrug and say we mustn't upset the Kumranis.
The most beautiful one of all. dances in a ring of fire. then throws off a challenge with a shrug.
What business is that of yours? Don't shrug, imbecile.
So they'll take pictures, make jokes, and just shrug it off like it's a random kill.
You shrug it off-- or you like to make the rest of us think you're shrugging it off-- but you miss it, too, don't you?
Then you get the shrug, like.
How can you shrug off. responsibilty like water off a duck's back?
Trying to shrug off the dress.
I'd shrug, but it hurts.
Look, Mary. Most people think if they pay a few dollars to community chests and goodwill agencies and so on they've done their duty and they can shrug aside all responsibility.
You can't shrug that off.
A glance, a shrug, a step forward, back. and they understand up in the Gods.
I had to dismiss something far more important than that with a shrug of my shoulder.
Never give me a smile, or even a shrug.
But make me to sit down and talk in whispers of this and that with an emphasis here and a shrug, and I'm soon confounded and defeated.
You can shrug, but I've been waiting three days.
See, you have a responsibility, and yet you shrug it off.
Don't shrug off the toughest part.
Oh, come on, abbie, every time I would ask you about him you. you. you shrug.
Well, I'm glad you can shrug it off just like that.
So far, he can just shrug it off.
And don't shrug either, you hear?
I may be behaving like a manic barometer, but don't shrug off help when it's offered.
Shrug'st thou, malice?
It's sometimes difficult just to shrug these things off, sir.
Don't shrug, imbecile.
I tried to shrug the feeling away to break free, but I couldn't.
I shrug, playing it off.
We have sought to shrug off individuality. replacing it with conformity.
This?! Don't shrug!
No, I wasn't, and that made it a lot easier to shrug off.
Shoulder shrug.

News and current affairs

Vigorous V-shaped rebounds have a built-in resilience that allows them to shrug off shocks relatively easily.
Whatever the tribunal's decision, China will simply shrug it off.
If European resentment is inevitable, some US leaders say, then the proper response is to shrug it off.
Although America objects strongly, a number of Europeans shrug off any opposition.
Unfortunately, most European governments merely shrug their shoulders when the issue is raised.
The country's two major political parties, the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) recently chose their leaders, yet ordinary Japanese responded with a collective shrug.
That particular criticism is inevitable, and officials should shrug it off.
As we shrug off our provincial defensiveness, we become more willing to accept the best that others have to offer.
After all, Asia has been on such a roll in recent years that far too many believe that the region can shrug off almost anything that the rest of the world dishes out.
The shrug of Rand's heroic entrepreneurs is to be found today within the tangled ciphers of corporate and government balance sheets.
But, despite the huge FCA fine, no top executive was forced to fall on his or her sword, and investors did little more than shrug.
Supporters of the European Constitution in France, on both the left and the right, shrug and say that including the Social Chapter in the draft is a compromise.
Lacking cyclical vigor in the aftermath of severe recessions, today's economies are finding it especially difficult to shrug off the impact of shocks and break out of anemic growth trajectories.
Likewise, Che could kill with a shrug.
For much of the world, China's ability to shrug off the global financial crisis and maintain a strong growth trajectory in 2010 and 2011 seems too easy.
The state, in the long run, simply cannot direct entrepreneurs to lend, borrow, and invest; investment capital will inevitably shrug when faced with oppressive manipulation of free markets.
We can either shrug our shoulders, or we can use the opportunity to revive our old values, rethink how we live, and change that projection.

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