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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.
See also:
put
,
shoulder
,
wheel
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Ramesh
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Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Nepali
Rozabela
ro-zah-BE-lah
Esperanto
Beylke
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Yiddish
Ishbel
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Scottish
Amie
AY-mee
English
Shayla
SHAY-lə
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