You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
Using a shovel that is too tall or too short for you only makes working with that particular tool harder on you.
Use your biggest, strongest muscles for the heavy stuff. We tend to lift a shovel of dirt, then twist to the side to dump it. Move your feet instead.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
Our plan right now is to proceed with our timetable as it was approved by the board of directors, which indicated April as the time for putting the shovel in the ground.
There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo,/ Shovel them under and let me work -/ I am the grass; I cover all.
For some people a home equity line of credit is a brand new shovel for digging themselves further into debt.
But we know the three S's still happen: shoot, shovel and shut up.