shoulder to shoulder
If people are shoulder to shoulder, they are close together and next to each other:
The refugees were packed shoulder to shoulder on the boat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Next to and beside
- abreast
- adjacent
- adjoining
- along
- alongside
- at sb's elbow idiom
- beside
- border
- contiguous
- coterminous
- elbow
- next
- next door
- on
- shoulder
- side
- surround
- to
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