(informal) force (someone) to agree to or accept (something). "There's this other
source of
information, if he tells me something, why, he's just
confoundedly certain that he's
got to shove it down my throat in some
particular line."
- Study Evaluation of Information (11 Aug. 64) (informal) force someone to agree to or accept something, such as an
opinion, idea,
situation or circumstance. The
phrase implies that a person is being forced to accept something that he does not
want or like or that something is being stated insistently, without allowing the other person any choice or say in the
matter. Literally, it means that something is being forced down a person's throat because he doesn't
want to swallow it.
Example "Some teachers try to shove ideas down the students' throats, which does not encourage
initiative." There's this other
source of
information, if he tells me something, why, he's just
confoundedly certain that he's
got to shove it down my throat in some
particular line.
(informal) force (someone) to agree to or accept (something).
Don't try to shove it down his throat and give him a big
sales talk on how you're going to get
point of end on that illness because in the first
place you're not talking the same
language and you're not talking in the same
field.
- Campaign to Handle Psychosomatic Ills (28 July 64) (colloquial) try forcefully to make (someone) accept (one's ideas,
opinions, etc.).
(informal) force (someone) to agree to or accept (something).
(informal) force someone to agree to or accept (something).