肩かたを入いれる

expression, ichidan verb

support; back up; side with

Idiomatic expression meaning to actively support or take the side of someone, often in a dispute or endeavor. Conveys a sense of lending one's strength or influence.

• 彼かれはいつも私わたしの意い見けんに肩かたを入いれてくれる。

  He always supports my opinion.

• あの政せい治じ家かは特とく定ていの業ぎょう界かいに肩かたを入いれていると言いわれている。

  That politician is said to be siding with a particular industry.

expression, ichidan verb

cover one's exposed shoulder again

Original, literal meaning: to put one's shoulder back into a garment that has slipped off. Rarely used in modern Japanese; the idiomatic sense is overwhelmingly more common.

• 着き物ものの肩かたがずれたので、肩かたを入いれた。

  My kimono slipped off my shoulder, so I pulled it back up.