削足适履 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 削足適履 xuēzúshìlǚ ㄒㄩㄝ ㄗㄨˊ ㄕˋ ㄌㄩˇ to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom) to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) impractical or inelegant solution Character by character 削(xuē)pare 足(zú)foot 适(shì)surname Shi 履(lǚ)shoe A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0