Nachtrag: deutsch: jmd. etw. eintrichtern

ei}n|trich|tern (ugs.): ... 2. jmdm. mit Mühe etw., was er lernen od. beherzigen soll, einprägen: einem Schüler die Vokabeln, die mathematischen Formeln e.; man hatte ihm eingetrichtert, nichts zu erzählen; Meinem Vater und meiner Mutter wurde noch eingetrichtert, dass Frankreich unser Erbfeind sei (Alt, Frieden 109).
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force / thrust / ram sth down sb’s throat (informal) to try to force sb to listen to and accept your opinions in a way that they find annoying— liability insurance damage compensation germany england

Definitely need to mention that it is figurative.

duuh, excuse last part, which was the contents of my clipboard :-)

NOAD:
force (or shove or ram) something down someone's throat - force ideas or material on a person's attention by repeatedly putting them forward.

To my ears the most common verbs are 'force' and 'shove [coll.]'

'Ram' would also be okay, but to my ears it's a good deal less common.

To the best of my recollection I've never heard anyone use 'thrust' with this phrase; however, it could be a BE variant.

Pons-Collins:
eintrichtern, eintrimmen - jdm etw ~ (inf) to drum sth into sb
to ram or force one's ideas down sb's throat - (inf) jdm seine eigenen Ideen aufzwingen

Oxford-Duden:
eintrichtern - (salopp) jmdm. etw. ~: drum sth. into sb.
ram or cram or shove or thrust sth. down sb.'s throat: (fig.) jmdm. etw. aufzwingen

... That is, if 'eintrichtern' is the best translation. My bilingual dictionaries, however, don't match up these two expressions, so it may not be quite the same, though the similarity in metaphor is tempting.

To me the difference is that 'drum sth. into so.' emphasizes repeating it over and over, drilling a concept again and again as a teaching technique, but not necessarily unkindly; whereas 'force sth. down so.'s throat' emphasizes insisting that they listen against their will, forcing it on their attention in an impolite or aggressive way, but not necessarily by repetition.

Oxford-Duden adds 'cram,' which is also definitely worth adding, higher up my list than 'ram.' And it mentions 'shove,' so it's probably not just AE, sorry.

You can actually speak figuratively of force-feeding someone facts, information, knowledge, etc.; that might be another useful similar expression.

CM2DD, was the name of your English source the thing you perhaps meant to paste? (-;

eintrichtern
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2. jmdm. mit Mühe etw., was er lernen od. beherzigen soll, einprägen:
einem Schüler die Vokabeln, die mathematischen Formeln e.; man hatte ihm eingetrichtert, nichts zu erzählen; Meinem Vater und meiner Mutter wurde noch eingetrichtert, dass Frankreich unser Erbfeind sei (Alt, Frieden 109).
[Duden - Das große Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache]

OT @hm--us: der Link ist sehr leicht zu übersehen aber die Möglichkeit besteht -- klick mal ganz oben rechts auf "new" über den Drop-Down-Menüs :-)

"eintrichtern" gefällt mir nicht sonderlich ...

Hmm, there were supposed to have been two suggestions in that post -- that is, I did get another set of fields, and I wrote something in both of them -- but then the second one vanished. One more try, this time with checkboxes checked, just for kicks.

Still not sure I fully understand the concept, but maybe it's just me. My horoscope in the paper said this would be a frustrating day. (-;

Or maybe I clicked on leeren and didn't notice that anything happened, but what happened was it erased what I had written?

Sorry, if this doesn't work I won't try again here in any case.

I agree with Oxford-Duden and Harper-Collins that "to ram/shove/.. s.th. down s.o.'s throat" means "jmdm. etw. aufzwingen". I disagree with the original proposal.

Ich teile hm--s und Norberts Bedenken: die Uebersetzung mit "eintrichtern" passt nur bei einem Lehrer-Schueler Zusammenhang. D.h. "jmd. etwas eintrichtern" ist "erzwungenes Lernen". Dies passt in einigen Faellen, aber nicht immer.

Einige Beispiele aus den ersten Google-Treffer, bei denen es passen wuerde:
- Dont swallow the religions that are forced down your throat. Question the teachings.
- Religion is a personal choice, or is it just what your parents instilled in you (or forced down your throat).

Einige, bei denen die Uebersetzung falsch waere:
- I don't think it should be, pardon the expression, "forced down my throat" by a big brother government.
- Love for ones country and heritage has to be natured, gently, not forced down our throat.
- Just a guy in Iraq who is sick of the daily bullshit and having political correctness forced down his throat.
- However, for my family, I support PCs and can’t stand that iTunes is forced down my throat for my family to watch my kid’s QuickTime videos.

Da "jmd. etwas aufzwingen" bei den ersten beiden als auch bei den letzten vier Beispielen passen wuerde, unterstuetze ich hm--us und Norbert "jmd. etw. aufzwingen" als Uebersetzung einzutragen.

PS: to drum sth. into so. - jmdm. etw. eintrichtern ist bereits im LEO

I, too, support hm--us, Norbert, and Hein -de-. The two expressions in the original suggestion don't mean the same thing. In the English phrase, the important aspect is that there is strong resistance to the thing. The person does not want to accept or take the thing. With eintrichtern this is not necessarily the case.