shoehorn

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place.
2. isim Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.

   “I was about sixty feet ahead of this film in many spots, which speaks rather poorly for it. And I resented the heartthrobs which were planted in my bosom with a shoehorn via the "little child" process.”

3. isim Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
4. fiil To use a shoehorn.
5. fiil To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.

   “I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.”

6. fiil To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.

   “People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.”