shakes up
Overhauls the system
Shakes up means to disturb, unsettle, or reorganize something established.
A scandal shakes up a company.
New management shakes up how things are done.
The phrase often implies healthy disruption—breaking complacency or forcing change: The industry needs someone to shake things up.
A shakeup is the resulting reorganization.
- disturbInterrupt or trouble
- rocks the boatDisturbs an established situation
- revitalizeRestore strength and vitality
- stirMix by circling
- stirs the potDeliberately provokes conflict
reorganize · convulse · jolt · destabilize · reform · revolutionize · changes the game · unsettle · rejuvenate · displace · innovate · agitate · modernize · rattle · topple · rebuild · fresh start · vibrate