Ordinary reason drinks-lover avoids McDonalds? (2,5,6)
I believe the answer is:
no great shakes
'ordinary' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'reason drinks-lover avoids mcdonalds?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'drinks' could be 'shakes' (shake is a kind of drink) and 'shakes' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for no great shakes that I've seen before include "unimpressive?" , "Of little merit" , "Little tremors" , "Nothing special" , "Fair" .)