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To squeez in : meaning?


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exRanger profile picture exRangerJanuary 2020
Vincent,

"To squeeze in" means to make something "fit", usually having to do with making (allocating) time for an activity, event, appointment, etc.

For example, a busy physician who has a fully-booked schedule might offer to see a patient, unscheduled, if only briefly, in which case we could say that "the physician is squeezing in the patient" (or, more likely, "the physician is squeezing the patient in" -- a syntactic "quirk" of English where the verb and its complementary preposition are "split" by the object of the verb).

Another example: A seemingly "fully occupied" train car allows one more person to board the train car, i.e., the train conductor "squeezes in" the additional (extra) person.

An example of time use might involve, say, adding an unscheduled meeting to one's workday schedule, e.g., "I'm fully booked, but I will try to squeeze in a meeting with Boris this afternoon."

Hope these examples help.

In French, the best equivalent I can summon is this: "pour se adapter à" which, I realize, has also the meaning of "to adapt to something" in English. But then, "to squeeze in" something, someone, etc., is in a sense the same as "adapting" to circumstances of the moment.
- exRanger
nmesomtoChukwu profile picture nmesomtoChukwuMarch 2020
Right. It also means to make something that will not naturally fit into a space (or even time schedule) fit in against it's will. The major idea of the word squeeze is the extra effort put in against comfort.
exRanger profile picture exRangerJanuary 2020
PS: note the spelling - the word "squeeze" ends w/ the letter "e".