Shoehorning

(redirected from shoehorns)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia.

Shoehorning

The practice of picking and choosing data to fit a previous prediction. For example, if one predicts a recession but the recession does not materialize, one may identify negative economic information to "prove" that the recession (or at least a slowdown) really happened. Shoehorning connotes ignoring contradictory data.

References in periodicals archive ?

The Chancellor tried to buy a pounds 25 shoehorn by footwear designer Manolo Blahnik.

The shoehorn is part of a range of products designed for Habitat by celebrities from the worlds of fashion, sport, music and acting.

SOLE TRADER: Brown's Blahnik cheque; Chancellor shells out for this Sex and the City shoehorn

She certainly looks the part, shoehorned into an impossibly tight pair of shorts and a figure-hugging T-shirt, her hair pulled back into a ponytail.