bed-shaker

Updated: December 25, 2025

All proposals to borrow, to pledge an old Waterbury watch, and other financial expedients failed; but the circle was squared when the preacher said, "I'll lie down, and when I have slept sixty cents worth, you send that bed-shaker to rout me out."

William Pittenger - Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way