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“To shoehorn anything into tiny Disneyland is really hard,” Irvine says, adding, “A lot of people in merchandising would have preferred it was bigger.”

For Saeed, seeing Theba play a cool, rich dad and hearing George use his natural accent, rather than being shoehorned into diminutive roles or changing their voices, was loaded with meaning.

I'm a big Marcus Smith fan but there is no room to shoehorn people in at international level.

In the past, these storylines would have undoubtedly influenced national conversations but for me, it felt like the issues were dealt with heavy-handedly and often felt shoehorned into plotlines.

And in recent years, the oftentimes absurd incursion of loanwoards has become satirized in popular culture, with speech that needlessly shoehorns English in at every turn pejoratively referred to as “voguespeak” or “Pangyo dialect.”