0 past simple and past participle of shoehorn
1 to fit something tightly in a particular place, often between two other things:
This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks.
But not all history can be shoehorned into a colonial/pre-colonial mould.
This information has often been cobbled together from previous reports with further second-hand information then being shoehorned to fit an already decided agenda or outcome.
However, seemingly in order more accurately to represent the many facets of the cloning debate, other issues were "shoehorned" into the story.
This does not mean that perception and conceptualization occur by some crude best fit principle whereby new experience is shoehorned into existing, more or less ill-fitting categories.
Why should its three natural time zones be shoehorned into one, other than for bureaucratic tidiness?
I am at the stage where my feet are being shoehorned rather unwillingly into the shoes of trusteeship.
For too long, children's health has had a raw deal in this country, particularly if the child cannot be shoehorned into the infant or young adult categories.
The inclusion of police as best value authorities, inappropriately shoehorned into a structure that is essentially designed for local government, will reinforce many of the problems.
