shoulder-to-shoulder
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3.3
- adverb
:
hombro con hombro
- In the crowded subway, commuters were packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
- stand shoulder-to-shoulder
But as, you know, as young adults standing here shoulder to shoulder, come on now.
- But as, you know, as young adults standing here shoulder to shoulder, come on now.
- But if I walk shoulder to shoulder, even touching shoulders, it's no problem.
- If we stand shoulder to shoulder, we can take back our community and we have done that.
- And so if they deregulate, fares come way down services now you're jammed in shoulder to shoulder.
- You know what, mad way still like I can't walk around Old Trafford shoulder to shoulder with a lot of these guys still.
- I feel like he came around and came back to me and we're standing shoulder to shoulder again and we're seeing the world and through the same lens again.
- They were SAT shoulder to shoulder watching fucking parades.
- America standing shoulder to shoulder with our heroes at Big Pharma.
- I turn to my right, almost shoulder to shoulder is Burgita.
- After parties, we're talking the most packed shoulder to shoulder.
- Going into a mosque and people don't want to pray shoulder to shoulder to you.
- And, you know, instead of not doing shows indoors in California, we were doing shoulder to shoulder shows.
Examples
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Grave markers stood densely, shoulder to shoulder, like the row houses on the other side of the street.
Fiction book (1998) -
When only this morning, the first American soldiers arrived on British soil, ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with us in Europe.
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I told you then that we were shoulder to shoulder with you.
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If we stand shoulder to shoulder, we can take back our community and we have done that.
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It's made for people to sit shoulder to shoulder right next to each other.
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People were shoulder to shoulder.
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Stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
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The room was full; everyone was shoulder to shoulder.
Fiction book (2000) -
Three generations of proud Doyle men standing shoulder to shoulder.
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It's a small place; it's sweltering, and it's packed with hundreds of families shoulder to shoulder.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
98
2.2
Next to each other in the same place
2
5.8
Next to each other and facing the same way
1
6.5
Very close together with little space between them
How Close
Surface Forms
Etymology
The phrase shoulder-to-shoulder comes from the simple image of people standing with their shoulders touching 'side by side'. So to stand shoulder-to-shoulder means to stand very close together, often to show support or to work together.