have the shakes

“I woke up the next morning and didn’t have the shakes for the first time in months. And you have to understand, as bad as I was, it wouldn’t be two hours before I would be craving another drink and the shakes would start, but that day they didn’t,” he said.

He also said that Raymond ought to be ashamed to be so drunk that he’d have the shakes like that.

Book publishers already have the shakes. 

But thar were a sort of a doctor feller 'round here las' winter, a-stoppin' at Erie; an' he called at my place, an' he says, 'No'hun the matter wi' you, a-growin out o' the war?' says he; an' I says, 'No'hun that I know'd on,' says I,—'I'm a-eatin' my reg'l'r victuals whin I don't have the shakes,' says I. 'Ah!' says he, 'you've the shakes?' he says; 'an' don't you know you ketched 'em in the war?'

When some of the children wake up, they have the shakes for a few minutes afterwards.