Even Syed, who wore the grimly cheerful demeanour of someone who had shoehorned the most unlikely candidates into a job, was starting to sound a little weary.
It took a little while, but he's full of it, that Scoots, and he's still… I bet you right now Scoots is trying to think of another way to shoehorn in Zumba pants.
I thought of Agnes across the corridor, a woman trying to convince everyone that she could shoehorn herself into a new life while some fundamental part of her refused to stop mourning the role she had left behind.