0 a smooth, curved piece of plastic or metal that you hold in the back of your shoe when putting it on, to help your foot slide into it --
1 to fit something tightly in a particular place, often between two other things: --
This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks.
2 a smooth, curved piece of plastic or metal that is placed in the back of a shoe when putting it on in order to help the foot slide in more easily --
I am at the stage where my feet are being shoehorned rather unwillingly into the shoes of trusteeship.
Why should its three natural time zones be shoehorned into one, other than for bureaucratic tidiness?
Hospitals have been trying to shoehorn the costs of ethics services into invisible crevices since ethics services started appearing in hospitals.
Deficits in perceptual organization are particularly difficult to shoehorn into dopamine theories of the disorder.
Moreover, the short introductions to the three sections serve to shoehorn each chapter into the general conceptual project of the book.
She picked up other people's turns of phrase, and used them to shoehorn her way into interaction.
However, seemingly in order more accurately to represent the many facets of the cloning debate, other issues were "shoehorned" into the story.
A shoehorn was built around the tunnel, just enough as to not be too sharp for the locomotives, opening up a fantastic view of the valley.
