Instead people just shrug their shoulders and have another drink, or watch another soap.

But the people living through them just shrugged.

There are enough alternatives that people just shrug and move on.

When it hits elsewhere, people can just shrug their shoulders and say life goes on.

That figure is so substantial that most people just shrug their shoulders and say they cannot do anything about it.

Some people shrug, as if a restored church could do little for a place long on the margins of life.

The liftways'd be busted, or cracked, and people just shrugged.

A major corporation may move to the suburbs or the Sun Belt, and people shrug.

Several people shrugged and said the problems were beyond the Mayor's powers.

Most people shrug a bewildered look when asked if they would rather live somewhere else.