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Marketing - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | English term or phrase: shoehorned full | View this book as shoehorned full of hard-hitting pointers, however, and it will greatly aid you in looking at business in a whole new way.
What does this expression mean?
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|   Nadia AyoubKudoZ activityQuestions: 208 (none open) ( 3 without valid answers) ( 5 closed without grading) Answers: 5919
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| | full to bursting | Explanation:
Not an expression that I'm really familiar with, but it refers to the shoehorn that is required when shoes are a very tight fit.
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Research shows that it is indeed an uncommon expression, but my dictionary does give "the cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces" as an example of usage in the context of a car-park.
The idea it is conjuring up is that you fill the available space (the book in this context), then you use a shoehorn so that you can push in one or two more. |
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Sheila Wilson
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