shake sb/somewhere down
US informal— phrasal verb with shake uk/ʃeɪk/us/ʃeɪk/verb shook, shaken
to search a person or place carefully, usually in order to find things that are stolen or illegal:
We can't shake down the whole building - only the suspect's apartment.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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