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- put one's shoulder to the wheel
put one's shoulder to the wheel
put one's shoulder to the wheel
Work hard, make a strenuous effort, as in We'll have to put our shoulder to the wheel to get this job done. This metaphoric term, alluding to pushing a heavy vehicle that has bogged down, has been used figuratively since the late 1700s.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Ari (2) | | AH-ree (Finnish) | Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic, Finnish |
| Aslan | | - | Turkish, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Chechen, Ingush |
| Galen | | GAY-lən | English |
| Terzo | | TER-tso | Italian |
| NadÈGe | | - | French |
| Norman | | NAWR-mən (English) | English, Ancient Germanic |