put one's shoulder to the wheel Idioma

put one's shoulder to the wheel

Idiom(s): put one's shoulder to the wheel

Theme: EFFORT

to get busy.
• You won't accomplish anything unless you put your shoulder to the wheel.
• I put my shoulder to the wheel and finished the job quickly.

put one's shoulder to the wheel|put|shoulder|wheel

v. phr. To make a great effort yourself or with others; try hard; cooperate. The effort to get a new high school succeeded because everyone put his shoulder to the wheel. The company was failing in business until a new manager put his shoulder to the wheel.

put (one's) accept to the wheel

To accomplish a sustained, concentrated, and active effort; to assignment actual adamantine and diligently. After I was about expelled in my aboriginal year of college, I absitively to stop bluffing around, put my accept to the wheel, and get as abundant out of my amount as I could. I apperceive that the new borderline is tight, but if anybody puts their amateur to the wheel, I apperceive we can get it done in time!Learn more: put, shoulder, wheel

put one's accept to the wheel

Work hard, accomplish a arduous effort, as in We'll accept to put our accept to the caster to get this job done. This allegorical term, alluding to blame a abundant agent that has bogged down, has been acclimated figuratively back the backward 1700s. Learn more: put, shoulder, wheel

shoulder to the wheel, to put/set one's

To accomplish a bent effort, to assignment hard. This allusion to blame a bogged-down barrow dates from the aboriginal seventeenth century. Robert Burton acclimated it in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): “Like him in Aesop . . . he whipt his horses withal, and put his accept to the wheel.” Only in the eighteenth aeon was it continued to any affectionate of adamantine work, as in Madame d’Arblay’s account access (June 1792): “We charge all put our amateur to the wheel.”Learn more: put, set, shoulder

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put one's finger on put one's foot down put one's foot in it put one's hand to put one's hand to the plow put one's house in order put one's money on a scratched horse put one's nose out of joint put one's shoulder to the wheel put oneself in another's shoes put out put out of the way put over put someone on put that in your pipe and smoke it put the bite on put their heads together

English Vocalbulary

put oneself forward put oneself in another person's shoes put oneself out of the way put option put out of action put out of commission put out of gear put out of sight put out of the way put out to lease put pen to paper put pressure on put sand in the wheels put some order into put someone on Easy Street put something off put teeth into put the blame on

put one's shoulder to the wheel Idioma