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Shoehorn

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounA smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place.
2.NounAnything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
3.NounAnything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
4.VerbTo use a shoehorn.
5.VerbTo 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.; His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule."
6.VerbTo 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."
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