a mover and shaker someone at the centre of events who makes things happen; a powerful person.
☞ Movers and shakers is first recorded in Arthur O'Shaughnessy's 1874 poem 'Ode'.
2000Daily Telegraph The Monte Carlo hotel restaurant [is] filled with actors and assorted movers and shakers attending the annual television festival.
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