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• n  the amount that a shoe will hold
  he emptied out a shoeful of water

• Not only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult.
• Beecher writes work songs about mill hands who get a "shoeful of steel" when a ladle burns through, and ballads about a "Frankie and Johnny" rodeo team who almost (but not quite .