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A plausible guess is that it refers in board games like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders Snakes and Ladders]; those have shaken dice, moves and winners and losers. However, as I've often had cause to mention, plausibility is the enemy of [[truth]] when it comes to [[explaining]] the origins of phrases. There's no documentary [[evidence]] at all to link this expression to the playing of board games.

A plausible guess is that it refers in board games like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders Snakes and Ladders]; those have shaken dice, moves and winners and losers. However, as I've often had cause to mention, plausibility is the enemy of [[truth]] when it comes to [[explaining]] the origins of phrases. There's no documentary [[evidence]] at all to link this expression to the playing of board games.

The [[public]] [[perception]] of the term began after the first performance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edward_Elgar Sir Edward Elgar]'s popular choral work ''The Music Makers'', at the Birmingham Festival in October 1912. The work is a setting of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_O'Shaughnessy Arthur O'Shaughnessy]'s 1874 poem '''Ode''', from his Music and Moonlight collection. In that poem, which singles out [[poets]] and musicians as the bards that [[guide]] lay [[thinking]], O'Shaughnessy coined the phrase 'movers and shakers':

The [[public]] [[perception]] of the term began after the first performance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edward_Elgar Sir Edward Elgar]'s popular choral work ''The Music Makers'', at the Birmingham Festival in October 1912. The work is a setting of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_O'Shaughnessy Arthur O'Shaughnessy]'s 1874 poem ''Ode'', from his Music and Moonlight collection. In that poem, which singles out [[poets]] and musicians as the bards that [[guide]] lay [[thinking]], O'Shaughnessy coined the phrase 'movers and shakers':

:We are the music makers,

:We are the music makers,