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Saturday, February 13, 2016
put one's shoulder to the wheel
put
one's
shoulder
to the
wheel
(
idiomatic
)
To
work
or
exert
oneself heavily or with full
effort
.
When he got to law school he knew he'd have to
put his shoulder to the wheel
to succeed.
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