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shoulder to shoulder
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
One Parisian icon standing shoulder to shoulder with another.
“What Spaniards want is to see their institutions, not fighting with each other, but working shoulder to shoulder,” he said as he announced it.
Flavorful street food sizzles on every corner, rickshaws and scooters blare their horns in symphonic competition, and cats and dogs thread between your legs as pedestrians shuffle shoulder to shoulder.
“We will work together, shoulder to shoulder, and I intend to seek his assistance in the forums that influence the conduct of the war,” Netanyahu said.
"Seeing me and Em together, shoulder to shoulder, brought up SO many feelings for people in our crew and management," he wrote.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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