We opened the very first rock climbing gym in America in 1987 on Elliott Ave in Seattle. The gym was no more than rocks glued to painted plywood panels.
shake a leg in British English. old-fashioned informal âº used to âtell someone to âhurry or âact more âquickly: Come on, Nick, shake a âleg or we'll never be âready in âtime.
The modern use of the phrase always exists as part of the extended and fixed phrase âmore ... than you can shake a stick atâ, meaning an abundance, plenty. The phrase without the âmore thanâ element is rather older, but not by much. Shaking a stick at somebody, of course, is a threatening gesture, or at least one of defiance. So to say that you have shaken a stick at somebody is to suggest that person is an opponent, perhaps a worthy one.