shoehorn

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The Canadian anthem couldn't even be completed without an enormous roar from a crowd that couldn't fit another person without the assistance of butter or a shoehorn.

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  1. noun A smooth curved implement, often of plastic or metal, inserted at the heel to help put on a shoe.
  2. transitive verb To squeeze into or as if into an insufficient space: The usher shoehorned us into the back of the crowded theater.

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  • While it shows the power of the blogosphere to shoehorn issues into the MSM, it also opens the left wing blogosphere to charges of really shoddy, tawdry, bottom-feeder reporting. —  Diatribune - Comments
  • You can't "shoehorn" a script into a compiled executable. —  AutoHotkey Community
  • Events should be dictated by the story, instead of writers thinking "how can we shoehorn a kiss into this episode?" —  All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • No. Appel goes on to pad his piece with historical information about past reparations and then tries to shoehorn the "plight" of gays into that history offering a few tried and true canards along the way -- such as the gays can't visit each other in the hospital tale. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • Oft-used terms like "Everything and the kitchen sink", "Swiss Army Knife", "Overkill" just barely hint at the functionality that Gigabyte has somehow managed to shoehorn into this model. —  PCSTATS
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