stand shoulder to shoulder with someone
shoulder
verb
uk /ˈʃəʊl.dər/ us /ˈʃoʊl.dɚ/

shoulderverb (ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY)

 shoulder the blame, burden, responsibility, cost, etc.
to accept that you are responsible for something bad or difficult: 承受谴责／承受重负／承担职责／承担费用（等等）
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.承担照顾老人和残疾亲属责任的主要都是女人。
Teachers cannot be expected to shoulder all the blame for poor exam results.考试成绩不理想，责任不能全部归到老师身上。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing reluctantly
accede to something
acceptance
acquiescence
be resigned to somethingidiom
bend to something
bow
bow down to someone
cave in
concede
crack
like it or lump itidiom
peace
resign yourself to something
resignation
resigned
resignedly
resort to something
settle for something
tolerate
trade something off

shoulderverb (BODY PART)

[ T ]
to put something on your shoulders to carry it: 用肩扛
Shouldering her pack, she strode off up the road.她背起背包，大步上路。
[ T+ adv/prep ]
to push something with one of your shoulders: 用肩推，用肩顶
She was carrying two suitcases and had to shoulder the door open.她手提着两个箱子，不得不用肩把门顶开。
He shouldered his way(= formed a way through by pushing with his shoulders) to the front of the crowd to get a better look.他用肩膀开路挤到人群前面，以便看得更清楚。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Transferring and transporting objects
air freight
bear
bearer
borne
bring
budge
carry
conveyance
heft
import
light speed
manhandle
paper round
payload
pick
shunt
transference
truck
virement
wheel

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Pushing and shoving

shoulder | American Dictionary

shoulder
noun[ C ]
us/ˈʃoʊl·dər/

shouldernoun[C] (BODY PART)

one of the two rounded, bony parts of a person’s body on either side of the neck where the top of the arm is joined:
She put her head on my shoulder.
A shoulder of a road is an edge just beyond the part you drive along, where you can stop safely.
shoulder
verb[ T ]
us/ˈʃoʊl·dər/

shoulderverb[T] (ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY)

to accept responsibility for something:
It is usually women who shoulder the responsibility for the care of elderly relatives.

shoulderverb[T] (PUT ON BODY PART)

to put something on your shoulders to carry it:
Shouldering her pack, she strode off up the road.

Examples of shoulder

shoulder
It is thus possible to draw the range of spike length for which oscillation occurred against shoulder radius (figure 3).
Peripheral mobilization, particularly of the shoulder, is a useful technique.
Lengthening the spike has the effect of moving the point of re-attachment of the separated layer up the nose of the body towards the shoulder.
Lateral margin with elevated outwardly curved, short (exsag.) shoulders.
They were strapped in order to eliminate shoulder displacements and to fixate the subject's torso to the back of the seat.
This increased risk of shoulder dystocia may be due to differences in anthropometric body proportions in such infants.
Her growing maturity is natural and inevitable, given the responsibilities she has no alternative but to shoulder.
It is at this point that the shoulders usually come to lie in an oblique orientation relative to the maternal pelvis.
At the outset, all the musical genres and all the individuals rubbed shoulders with one another without inhibition.
An objective definition of shoulder dystocia: prolonged head to body delivery intervals and/or the use of ancillary obstetric maneuvres.
The range of motion of the inner shoulder joint is about one third of those of the outer shoulder joint.
Finally, the forces on actuators in some typical motions for neck and shoulder are plotted.
On measures of shoulder muscle strength, there was no effect of lighting in subjects exposed to incandescent or fluorescent sources.
This means the shoulder angle sensory information contains a negligible amount of motion acceleration compared to gravity acceleration.
She heels the floor and slowly moves her body forward, making ample gestures with her arms, first the right shoulder, then the left shoulder.
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Collocations withshoulder

shoulder

These are words often used in combination with shoulder.

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anterior shoulder
If relocation of the anterior shoulder has not occurred, further rotation is needed before traction is again applied to the head.
dislocated shoulder
He did this with a dislocatedshoulder.
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