We opened the very first rock climbing gym in America in 1987 on Elliott Ave in Seattle. The gym was no more than rocks glued to painted plywood panels.
shake a leg in British English. old-fashioned informal âº used to âtell someone to âhurry or âact more âquickly: Come on, Nick, shake a âleg or we'll never be âready in âtime.
1 It could also simply mean that if someone was to sell a limb, it would only be for a huge amount of money.  To âshake a legâ means to âhurry up.â This phrase was coined in the early 1900s, as evidenced by a 1904 article in the New York Magazine which explicitly defines the meaning.