shoulder to shoulder
In close proximity or cooperation, as in The volunteers worked shoulder to shoulder in the effort to rescue the miners. This expression originated in the late 1500s in the military, at first signifying troops in close formation. Its figurative use dates from the late 1800s.
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How to use shoulder to shoulder in a sentence
Back at the barracks, police conducted a shoulder-to-shoulder “line search.”
Manhunt for a Cop-Hating Pennsylvania ‘Survivalist’ | Michael Daly | September 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInside, guests sat sweating shoulder-to-shoulder on the unseasonably warm Paris afternoon.
The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades.
It seemed to remind him of the old shoulder-to-shoulder tradition.
Sense from Thought Divide | Mark Irvin CliftonThe shoulder-to-shoulder fight of the ancient rivals, from 1914 to 1918, let us hope, has put the seal on their pact of peace.
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It was a surging, struggling, shoulder-to-shoulder scramble.
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