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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This is a converse to the preceding entry, which replaced ‘shoulder’ with ‘soldier.’ To ‘shoulder on’ is to struggle with a metaphorical weight on your back; it’s a lot like soldiering on. examples:
But the rest of us will shoulder on, as we’ve done before.
www.bambinoscurse.com/archives/2003_10_12_index.php
Surely the planet will shoulder on, but the miraculous adaptation of this collared lizard, or that canyon wren, will be missing.
weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20D%20Vol. %2018.2-21.1/Vol.%2020.1/Cooperman_Dust.htm
His foot soldiers will shoulder on, for he’s found political gravitas for people too hysterical to have had it before.
nerofiddled.blogspot.com/ 2006/05/karl-rove-minority.html
But we can shoulder on for we know that on our life’s journey, even in our ‘last battle,’ there is “the beginning of Chapter One of the Great Story…
www.labri.org/minn/news/spring2004.htm
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This was noted by Trochee in a post that went up 11-04-05. Since it’s long and complex (as well as linguistically well informed), I didn’t want to crunch her post to fit it into a block quotation, but it’s worth searching out—currently on page 14 of Contribute.
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