From c.1300 as to go, move, depart; move (someone or something), transport. Sense of to alter, to change appeared mid-13c. (cf. shiftless). Meaning change the gear setting of an engine is from 1910; to shift gears in the figurative sense is from 1961. Related: Shifted; shifting.
The African Egg-Eating Snake. The African egg-eating snake is one of Egyptâs more benevolent species. These tree-dwelling snakes have a wide range throughout Africa and parts of Arabia, but in Egypt they primarily inhabit the southern Nile Valley.f thereâs one snake in all of Egypt most likely to be mistaken for a devil, itâs the horned viper. This highly venomous desert snake has a hornlike scale protruding above each of its eyes, giving it a truly demonic appearance.
The smallest of Britainâs indigenous snakes is the venomous Adder (Vopera Berus) which is found all over the country, yet, rarely seen in comparison to the UKâs longest snake, the Grass snake (Natrix natrix), which grows to about 120cm.ritain is home to six species of native reptiles, these are split into two groups, lizards and snakes. Reptiles are most frequently found toward the southern warmer parts of the country that provide better sites for basking and incubating eggs.