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Shake things up
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Shake things up
To cause a big, surprising change to a situation.
Examples:
1- The Tunguska explosion shook up the Siberian forest and the scientific world.
2- Sometimes you need to shake things up in your routine to feel more alive.
Hello and welcome to Daily English. As it’s the weekend, we learn English through stories and our story today is about one of the most mysterious explosions in history — the Tunguska Event.
In 1908, deep in Siberia, something massive exploded in the sky. It wasn’t a volcano. It wasn’t lightning. Scientists now believe it was a meteor bursting in the atmosphere. The blast was so strong it flattened over 80 million trees across 800 square miles — an area bigger than New York City. People hundreds of miles away saw the sky glow for nights afterward. People hundreds of miles away saw the sky glow for nights afterward. For weeks, reports came in that the night sky was so bright in Europe and Asia that people could read newspapers at midnight without a candle. No crater was ever found, and the event still holds mystery. But one thing was certain: the Tunguska explosion really shook things up — both literally, and in the way scientists think about space.
Idiom of the Day: Shake things up. To shake things up means:
👉 To cause a big, surprising change to a situation.
📌 Examples:
- The Tunguska explosion shook up the Siberian forest and the scientific world.
- She shook things up at work by introducing bold new ideas.
- Sometimes you need to shake things up in your routine to feel more alive.
- A new player shook up the team and made everyone improve.