英语词汇put your shoulder to the wheel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	put your shoulder to the wheel
词源	put your shoulder to the wheel. This expression refers to someone literally putting his shoulder to the wheel and push- ing a cart out of the mud, as was so common on roads every- where in the days before macadam. The expression goes back at least to Elizabethan times, when it probably was proverbial in the form of Lay your shoulder to the wheel and push the oxen.
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