Usually means: Tremble intensely from fear, nervousness.
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  3. shake like a leaf: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shake like a leaf: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (shake like a leaf)

verb:  (simile, idiomatic) To tremble, as with fear, cold, etc.; to shiver.

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