shrug


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a gesture involving the shoulders

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raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

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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.
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With song titles like Sir Walter Raleigh's Fast Food Take Over and Beardo Weirdo, and being known for their eccentric use of symbolic props during performance, Shrug will and still captivate and thrill.
Once you're at the top of the movement, shrug your shoulders upward and pause for one second.
The handicapper has put him up a further 5lb for that win but Jack Smudge's progress has shown no signs of waning and he can again shrug off that extra burden.
This ensemble from Marks and Spencer's Per Una Due range works three of the new season shapes with jersey culottes and a multi-stripe shrug creating a striking silhouette.
"I'm just feeling myself these days," Brosnan says with a shrug. "Feeling florid and letting it all hang out."
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High shrug: From a standing or seated position, and while holding the resistance with straight arms, lift or "shrug" the shoulders straight up to the ears, pause momentarily, and then slowly return to the starting position.
Dr Whittington said: 'These type of drugs are widely used but I find it very puzzling that many medical professionals just shrug their shoulders when death is caused.'
Three years ago, researchers announced they had found a gene that, when mutated, enables the parasite that causes the majority of the world's malaria to shrug off the widely used drug chloroquine (SN: 11/29/97, p.
Was his shrug a way of putting his best face on a mounting PR disaster or was it an attempt to hint that the real resurrection of the decidedly moribund Biennale will come with his not-yet-confirmed 1999 sequel?
I could understand intellectually that American courts are reservoirs of racist sentiment and have historically been hostile to black defendants, but a lifetime of propaganda about American "justice" is hard to shrug off.