shoulder

Related to shoulder: rotator cuff, frozen shoulder, shoulder muscles, Shoulder pain

shoulder

A paved or unpaved lane or area on the side of a road, often a highway, where drivers can stop their vehicles in emergency situations. I think you've got a flat tire. You'd better pull over on to the shoulder. I came to a stop on the shoulder because it was raining so hard I couldn't see.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See:
  • a chip on (one's) shoulder
  • a chip on your shoulder
  • a dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants
  • a shoulder to cry on
  • act shoulder to shoulder
  • an old head on young shoulders
  • be a weight off (one's) shoulders
  • be a weight off your shoulders
  • be looking over (one's) shoulder
  • be looking over your shoulder
  • be on (one's) shoulder
  • be on someone's shoulder
  • be shoulder to shoulder
  • be, stand, act, etc. shoulder to shoulder
  • broad shoulders
  • broad shoulders, have
  • carry the weight of the world on (one's) shoulders
  • carry the weight of the world on shoulders
  • carry the weight of the world on your shoulders
  • chip on one's shoulder
  • chip on one's shoulder, to have a
  • chip on shoulder
  • cold shoulder
  • cold shoulder, to give/show the
  • cold-shoulder
  • cry on (one's) shoulder
  • cry on (someone's) shoulder
  • cry on shoulder
  • cry on someone's shoulder
  • fall (squarely) on (someone's) shoulders
  • get the cold shoulder
  • give (one) the cold shoulder
  • give somebody/get the cold shoulder
  • give someone the cold shoulder
  • good head on one's shoulders, have a
  • good head on one's shoulders, to have a
  • hard shoulder
  • have (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • have a chip on (one's) shoulder
  • have a chip on your shoulder
  • have a good head on (one's) shoulders
  • have a good head on shoulders
  • have a good head on your shoulders
  • have broad shoulders
  • have shoulder to the wheel
  • have the cares of the world on (one's) shoulders
  • have the weight of the world on (one's) shoulders
  • head and shoulders above
  • head and shoulders above (someone or something)
  • head and shoulders above somebody/something
  • head and shoulders above someone/something
  • head and shoulders above, to be
  • hunch (one's)/the shoulders up
  • hunch up (one's)/the shoulders
  • keep (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • look over (one's) shoulder
  • look over your shoulder
  • looking over shoulder
  • on (one's) shoulders
  • on one's shoulders
  • on shoulders
  • on somebody's shoulders
  • put (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • put one's shoulder to the wheel
  • put shoulder to the wheel
  • put your shoulder to the wheel
  • rest (squarely) on (someone's) shoulders
  • rub elbows
  • rub elbows with
  • rub elbows with (someone)
  • rub shoulders
  • rub shoulders with (someone)
  • rub shoulders with someone
  • set (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • shoulder
  • shoulder to cry on
  • shoulder to shoulder
  • shoulder to the wheel, to put/set one's
  • shrug (one's) shoulders
  • shrug one's shoulders
  • soft shoulder
  • square (one's) shoulders
  • square one's shoulders
  • stand head and shoulders above
  • stand head and shoulders above (someone or something)
  • stand on (someone's) shoulders
  • stand on someone's shoulders
  • stand on the shoulders of giants
  • stand shoulder to shoulder
  • stay head and shoulders above (someone or something)
  • straight from the shoulder
  • the cold shoulder
  • tower head and shoulders above
  • tower head and shoulders above (someone or something)
  • tower head and shoulders over (someone or something)
  • you can't put a wise head on young shoulders
  • you can't put an old head on young shoulders
References in classic literature
There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.
Great Expectations
This he resented, and when she stood shoulder to shoulder with him, bristling and showing her teeth, the aspiring solitary ones would back off, turn-tail, and continue on their lonely way.
White Fang
Placing three of them with their faces to the wall and arms locked, I commanded two more to mount to their shoulders, and a sixth I ordered to climb upon the shoulders of the upper two.
Princess of Mars
"And that may be the least little hint of it," Harley would reply, pointing to Michael's shoulder where the leopard had scarred it on the day Jack, the Airedale, and Sara, the little green monkey, had died.
Michael Brother of Jerry
Her bare shoulders and arms gave Kitty a sense of chill marble, a feeling she particularly liked.
Anna Karenina
"How about that?" and he turned toward the sailors who had by this time picked themselves from the ground, none of them much the worse for his experience except the fellow who had been the cause of it, and who would doubtless nurse a sore shoulder for a week or so.
Son Of Tarzan
Presently one of them, a little, mean-faced, black-bearded fellow with a countenance which reminded Tarzan of Pamba, the rat, laid his hand upon the shoulder of a giant who stood next him, and with whom all the others had been arguing and quarreling.
Tarzan of the Apes
The seconds followed, and they made quite a group, Joe and Ponta facing each other, the referee in the middle, the seconds leaning with hands on one another's shoulders, their heads craned forward.
The Game
"Accursed Germans!" he cried, and looked down at the dead face on his arm, and shrugged his shoulders resignedly.
The New Magdalen
Nodding, for it would have been childish to cut him, I walked on quickly; but in a minute I felt a hand on my shoulder.
Moon and Sixpence
He did not check himself, but drove in upon Spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat.
The Call of the Wild
When they were close up to one another, Phegeus took aim first, but his spear went over Diomed's left shoulder without hitting him.
Iliad
When he kissed her upon the lips she leaned heavily against him and looked over his shoulder into the darkness.
Winesberg Ohio
But Skipper did not awake and a fine spray of rain, almost as thin as mist, made Jerry curl up and press closely into the angle formed by Skipper's head and shoulder. This did awake him, for he uttered "Jerry" in a low, crooning voice, and Jerry responded with a touch of his cold damp nose to the other's cheek.
Jerry of the Islands
The cares of a kingdom do not stoop the shoulders, they do not droop the chin, they do not depress the high level of the eye-glance, they do not put doubt and fear in the heart and hang out the signs of them in slouching body and unsure step.
Connecticut Yankee