2024-11-26
2 分钟Learn an expression that means force something in somewhere that it doesn't quite fit. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak_2024/ep-241125 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.
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Hello and welcome to the English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.
I'm Fei Fei and I'm joined by Georgie.
Hi Fei Fei, how are you?
Very well, thank you.
How are you Georgie?
I'm pretty good, thank you too, Fei Fei.
I've actually been reading a book lately and I was really enjoying it, but towards the end the author just shoehorned in a random side plot that didn't really make sense with the rest of the story.
It was quite disappointing.
Oh no, what a shame.
Now you just used the phrase shoehorn something in and that's what we're learning in this program.
It's a verb with a couple of meanings, but I think it'll help our listeners if we explain what the noun shoehorn means first.
Okay, I can do that.
A shoehorn is a piece of curved material like plastic or metal that we put in the back of a shoe to help our foot slide into the shoe more easily.