英语释义
1. a curved piece (as of horn, wood, or metal) used in putting on a shoe
2. to force to be included or admitted
shoehorned irrelevant arguments into his essay
3. to force or compress into an insufficient space or period of time squeeze
shoehorn the past, present, and future into about 500 pages
— Otis Port
4. a curved device that you use to slide the heel of your foot into a shoe
5. to force (something or someone) into a small space, a short period of time, etc.
6. a curved piece (as of metal) to help in sliding the heel of the foot into a shoe