to shoehorn
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7.7
- verb
- /ˈʃuːhɔrn/
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- The director tried to shoehorn a love story into the action film, which confused many viewers.
- try to shoehorn
There is no need to shoehorn the virus model into rabies.
- There is no need to shoehorn the virus model into rabies.
- Like just write a great character, not try to shoehorn in a type, right?
- One of these is Homer, and we could sort of shoehorn the Greek tragedians in there as well.
- The last thing I do want to say is can we shoehorn all Greek tragedy into this, this perspective?
- Another thing that you don't want to do is try to shoehorn Anselm and his thought into somebody else's classification system.
- If they can get a if they can find a way to to push it through, shoehorn it through by changing the filibuster, they will and they'll do it on this issue.
- So it's not us that are at fault, It's the system that we're being trying to force or shoehorned into.
- The whole like people just get on their back like woke ISM gone wrong and like just trying to shoehorn these things.
- So, you know, games like shoehorning in representation of trans characters or like lesbian characters or or things like this.
Examples
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Direct payments may be cheaper than trying to shoehorn people into a system that they can't compete in.
Blog text (1) -
Better to speak of these things as they are rather than to shoehorn them into terms and analogies.
Blog text (1) -
We were able to shoehorn that scene in, in the beginning, and bring in this one.
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Why do people try to shoehorn their children into slots?
Fiction book (1995) -
Do not try to shoehorn them into a form you have that does not fulfill the client's desires.
Academic text (1996) -
I hate it when folks try to shoehorn their own subjective ideas into the book.
Blog text (19) -
That's why we often find that old laws are shoehorned into situations they were not intended to address.
Blog text (21) -
Know that some people can't be shoehorned into roles, regardless of how much you want them to succeed.
Blog text (4) -
The subplots about the corrupt businessmen were shoehorned into the film, and I felt nothing about them.
Blog text (34) -
What is hard is to shoehorn factual situations into legal concepts that weren't designed for those factual situations.
Synonyms
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4.9
To force something tightly into a narrow space
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3.0
Push something into another thing so it goes inside
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9.1
To squeeze people or things into a small space to make them fit
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shoehorn as a verb comes from that tool: to 'shoehorn' someone or something is to force or squeeze them into a space they do not easily fit, just like pushing a foot into a tight shoe with a shoehorn.