put (your) shoulder to the wheel

to work hard and make an effort.

If everyone puts their shoulder to the wheel, the job will be finished in no time.

• be bright and breezy
• be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
• be broad in the beam
• be brother's keeper
• be brought to account
• be built like a brick shithouse
• be built like a tank
• be built on sand
• be bulging at the seams
• be bumping along the bottom
• be burnt to a crisp
• be bursting at the seams
• be called to account
• be carried out feet first
• be carved in stone
• be cast in a different mould
• be cast in the same mould
• be caught in the crossfire
• be caught in the middle
• send out something
• send packing
• send round the bend
• send round the twist
• send shivers down someone's spine
• send shivers down spine