Translation of "Schultern zucken" in English

The European institutions should not simply shrug their shoulders.

Shrugging our shoulders in the dark?

You can shrug, but I've been waiting three days.

To shrug their shoulders and talk about the current year's export levels.

She covered her face with her hands, her shoulders shook spasmodically.

I can only shrug my shoulders in pity.

Pieck could only shrug his shoulders helplessly.

Yet I can only mange to shrug nonchalantly.

Put the question to the average citizen and he will shrug his shoulders.

Put the question to the average citizen and he will shrug his shoulders.

When suffering arises you must note it, don't just shrug it off.

The EU must not shrug its shoulders and say "tant pis" if banning the transfer system does irreparable harm to football.

Nor can EU officials continue to shrug their shoulders and blame national politicians for failing to implement proposed EU-wide measures.

Jackie would hurt my feelings trying to be nice and you would just shrug and go "neh".

Image 1 – Easy-going: True to the motto: "Shrug your shoulders"

Of course, the Supreme Court will continue to express its shock at individual act of discrimination ("An Arab was no allowed into the water park", "Ethiopians were not allowed to register their children at a Petach Tikva school") but will shrug at a comprehensive official policy which is systematically criminal.

Today, those same managers can only shrug their shoulders and explain that they do not have the power to decide on a loan, because it is decided by a computer at headquarters.

Let pedants and sceptics shrug their shoulders about “small” organizations that issue “small” papers and fling a challenge to the entire world.

Tics may involve bodily movements (motor tics) such as stiff shoulders or facial twitching or produce some kinds of sound (phonic or vocal tics) like grunting, sniffing, or clearing the throat.

It was a burden I had chosen, so I needed to just square my shoulders and pick it up and carry it.

Image 1 – Easy-going: True to the motto: “Shrug your shoulders”

If black plays some fancy move like in the right diagram, white will just shrug and capture the marked stone with, forming a powerful shape (Ponnuki, more in paragraph 3) and end up with all his stones connected and safe, while black actually has lots of further cutting points in his formation.

Given such an interpretation of the central area of the peace-pin, it would probably not be all that surprising if people were to shrug their shoulders and push off, mumbling that "Such a utopia belongs to the hereafter".

My tongue teases and sucks her little nub making her legs shake around my shoulders.

But what is visible from afar is that his shoulders are twitching, while the Argentinian female soprano singer on stage burbles the last four songs untouched.