idiom > (literally) to trim the foot to suit the shoe--to do something very foolishly or in an impractical manner
Jiezhishilv
Explanation: Big shoes, small feet, cut off the toes to adapt to the shoe size. Metaphor barely make do, or unprincipled accommodation Usage: -Linked; as the predicate attribute; metaphor barely make do, or unprincipled accommodation Source: Pei "fill": "If in doing it solution, only reflected in its proper shoe toe cut-off ear."
No. 2
Still procrustean. Analogy cart before the horse or barely make do. Pei "<ancient books of doubt for example> fill": "Ancient books cover to the main rote learning, so remember a few words, often cited as the main number to. If the strong whom solution, only reflected in its appropriate discharge cut-off toe ear."
v.: (literally) to trim the foot to suit the shoe--to do something very foolishly or in an impractical manner
Thesaurus
read item by item from the text, rote, draw a tiger with a cat as a model, copy, cut the feet to fit the shoes; act in a procrustean manner, Decapitate Will crown, Cheng, people are buying to fulfill, Death move credenda, mechanically, By mode Drawings, (surname) Marrow Gourd painting, Yuezhishilv
Antonym
When in Rome do as the Romans do., Asked the customs entry, When in Rome do as the Romans do., Actually cut into the question, Into the state asked the customs, take such measures as one suitable to local conditions, quote one's words out of context, Shenliqianjie, Exaggeration, Shutter Moving, shutter walk, cut one'scoataccording to one's cloth, when in Rome do as the Romans do