According to the Oxford English Dictionary this phrase first appeared in an issue of the Lancaster Journal of Pennsylvania dated 5 August 1818: "We have in Lancaster as many Taverns as you can shake a stick at".
Modern use of this phrase is often -- "more xxxx than you can shake a stick at", meaning an abundance, plenty.
The meaning is not clear of the phrase is not clear.
It means that you have so many choices to go by.
The expression, "It's nothing to shake a stick at" means it is important.
overheard in the loos of a rock gig aimed at a bad one armed drummer.
"Shake a stick at" is an idiom meaning "to form a conception of (as by counting or imagining)". So, "more than you can shake a stick at" means "more than you can count/imagine".
There is no such phrase as "eat you".
In Stick RPG 2 DJ asks you to get him pizza and shake at about 4-5pm.
The first recorded use of the phrase was in a letter Roosevelt wrote to Henry Sprague in 1900. Roosevelt claimed the phrase to be of West African origin, but there is no corroborative evidence of that. It is possible that he coined the phrase and made up the derivation.
qwerty!!!!!!!!! An unpleasant contaminate (stick) in the potter's clay that ruins the finished product. Term is applied to unpleasant/ uncooperative persons who spoil fun or good times by being non-homogeneous.
There is no such phrase. There is a word rampage. It is of Scottish origin, perhaps from RAMP, to rear up.
The phrase of Greek origin referring to the common people is "hoi polloi."
"on the rocks"
You snap it. And sometimes you have to shake it too.