With regard to certain types of expense, money can be shovelled out, for camps and other things.
Any modern doctor will readily agree that food shovelled down children's mouths loses a substantial portion of its benefit.
We have mobilised bulldozers, scrapers and shovels for open-cast mining.
However, these days pupils are shovelled out of the school building as soon as the ink has dried on the examination papers.
They were shovelled by agreement of the parties in thousands into certain divisions arbitrarily chosen with which they had no connection.
Now he has to fight him with pickaxes and shovels.
They shovelled out £24,000,000 or £25,000,000 to the coal industry, which was sheer waste, and they did nothing whatever to help its economic reorganisation.
They borrowed picks and shovels, in the dark.
