• neck and neck, nip and tuck
• to stand by a person's side
• to hold by, to insist, to insist on sg, to insist that, to insist upon sg, to persevere, to persist in sg
• to take one's stand near sg
• to give sy one's good word
• to wake, to wake, woke, woken
• cheek by jowl, chock-a-block, chockablock, end to end