今日の単語　shoehorn

shoehorn

今日の単語は shoehorn です。靴ベラかな。

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

to fit something tightly in a particular place, often between two other things:

A shoehorn is a piece of metal or plastic with a slight curve that you put in the back of your shoe so that your heel will go into the shoe easily.

If you shoehorn something into a tight place, you manage to get it in there even though it is difficult.

押し込む

例文、例文。やっぱり例文！

It’s powered by a rip-roaring, 550-horsepower, supercharged V8. It’s the kind of engine that seems completely insane to shoehorn into a practical, family-friendly crossover, but that’s just part of the appeal. It’s nuts. It’s crazy. It doesn’t make any logical sense. (from the Daily Item)

550馬力？こんなすごいエンジンをファミリー向けのクロスオーバー車に入れ込むなんて尋常じゃないね。

Olivia Rodrigo has clarified that the “shoehorn” she received as a gift from President Joe Biden when she visited the White House is actually an ice cream scooper. (from the Independent)

大統領からもらった靴ベラ。実はアイスクリームをすくうものだと判明。

We’d have to build another school to shoehorn all our students in.

そうなったら生徒を押し込むためにもうひとつ学校を建設しなきゃならなくなる。

This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks.

二つのメガバンクの建物に挟まれるかっこうでその小さいレストランは建っている。

Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces.

狭いスペースに車が停めてある

今日の単語は
shoehorn 靴ベラ、押し込む
でした

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