soft shoulder 
noun North American
An unmetalled strip of land at the side of a road.The soft shoulder of the road gave out as they made their way across difficult terrain....
- They were State Troopers, not Fed radio cops, and they pulled their cruiser onto the soft shoulder of the freeway, braking a few feet short of the soles of his boots.
- Another had 700 pounds on an ill-advised roof rack when he ran off onto the soft shoulder - probably falling asleep.
- feel-bad factor
- feel day
- feeler
- feeler gauge
- feeless
- feel free (to do something)
- feel-good
- feel-good factor
- feel-goodism
- feelie
- feeling
- feelingful
- feelingless
- feelingly
- feelingness
- feel like (doing) something
- feel one's age
- feel one's oats
- feel one's way
- feel (or find) one's legs
- feel (or look) small
- feel (or take) the pulse of
- feel small
- feel the draught
- feel the pinch