Originally Posted By: tsuwm
355 hits in google[books] for shouldered away.


Is that a lot or a little? If it were google hits without the books it would be inconsequential. What is it with google books? And what's the corpus? All American English? British English? Indian? Canadian? Australian? The whole world of English?

BTW, Google Books gives me 605 hits for "shouldered away" and 274,215 for "shouldered out of the way".

Last edited by Faldage; 06/13/2010 9:44 PM. Reason: More info