idiom > (literally) to trim the foot to suit the shoe--to do something very foolishly or in an impractical manner
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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."
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No. 3
  成语:截趾适履
  拼音:jié zhǐ shì lǚ
  解释:
  脚大鞋小,切断脚趾去适应鞋子的大小。比喻勉强凑合或无原则的迁就。
  出处:
  刘师培《<古书疑义举例>补》:“若强为之解,徒见其截趾适履耳。”
  用法:
  作谓语、定语;比喻勉强凑合或无原则的迁就
English Expression
  1. 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