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walk a mile in [someone's] shoes

walk a mile in [someone's] shoes Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

be in someone else's shoes|in someone else's shoes

v. phr. To be in someone else's situation. Fred has had so much trouble recently that we ought to be grateful we're not in his shoes.

Dead men's shoes

If promotion or success requires replacing somebody, then it can only be reached by dead men's shoes' by getting rid of them.

fill his shoes

do his work as well as he does If Mia leaves, it won't be easy to fill her shoes. She does two jobs.

fill one's shoes

substitute satisfactorily for；take the place of sb． and do as well成功地代替
When Jack got hurt，the coach had nobody to fill his shoes．杰克受伤时，教练找不到能代替他的好球员。
It will be difficult to find someone to fill the old professor's shoes．要找个能胜任的人来替代这位老教授的工作是很困难的。

fill one's shoes|fill|shoe|shoes

v. phr. To take the place of another and do as well; to substitute satisfactorily for. When Jack got hurt, the coach had nobody to fill his shoes. Joe hopes to fill his father's shoes. See: IN ONE'S SHOES.

fill someone's shoes

fill someone's shoes
Assume someone's position or duties, especially in a satisfactory way. For example, It'll be hard to find someone to fill her shoes when she retires, or John expects his son to fill his shoes at the store. Also see in someone's shoes.

get along on a shoestring

Idiom[s]: get along [on a shoestring]

Theme: POORNESS

to be able to afford to live on very little money.
• For the last two years, we have had to get along on a shoestring.
• With so little money, it's hard to get along.

Goody two-shoes

A goody two-shoes is a self-righteous person who makes a great deal of their virtue.

horse shoes up his ass

very lucky, always winning He's got horseshoes up his ass! He won six games of bingo!

In another's shoes

It is difficult to know what another person's life is really like, so we don't know what it is like to be in someone's shoes.

in one's shoes|boot|boots|in one's boots|shoe|shoe

adv. phr. In or into one's place or position. How would you like to be in a lion tamer's boots?
Compare: PUT ONESELF IN ANOTHER'S PLACE, STEP INTO ONE'S SHOES.

in sb else's shoes

Idiom[s]: in someone else's shoes AND in someone else's place

Theme: EMPATHY

seeing or experiencing something from someone else's point of view.
• You might feel different if you were in her shoes.
• Pretend you're in Tom's place, and then try to figure out why he acts the way he does.

in sb's shoes

in sb．'s situation处于某人之地位
I wouldn't be in your shoes for all the wealth in the world．给我世界上所有的财富，我也不愿处于你那个地位。
If I were in your shoes I'd ask for more money．如果我处于你的地位，我会要更多的钱。
He's always in debt；I wouldn't be in his shoes for anything．他总是向别人借钱，我无论如何不愿过他那种日子。
Supposing you put yourself in his shoes， would you have behaved differently in the circumstances？假如你处在他的位子上，在那种情况下你会做得和他不一样吗？

in someone's shoes

in someone's shoes
Also, in someone else's shoes; in someone's place or stead. Acting for another person or experiencing something as another person might; in another's position or situation. For example, If you were in my shoes, would you ask the new secretary for a date? or In your shoes I wouldn't accept the offer, or Can you go to the theater in my place? or He was speaking in her stead. The idioms alluding to shoes, with their image of stepping into someone's shoes, date from about 1700 and are generally used in a conditional clause beginning with if. Stead, dating from the 1300s, and place, from the 1500s, are used more loosely. Also see fill someone's shoes; put someone in his or her place; take place.

Jesus shoes|Jesus|Jesus boots|boots|shoes

n., slang Men's sandals, particularly as worn by hippies and very casually dressed people. I dig your Jesus boots, man, they look cool.

on a shoestring

on a very low budget, with little money to spend We went to China and Japan on a shoestring and enjoyed it very much.

on a shoestring|on|shoestring

adv. phr. With little money to spend; on a very low budget. The couple was seeing Europe on a shoestring.

put on your dancing shoes

get ready for dancing: "Come on Sarah! Put on your dancing shoes - we're going clubbing tonight!"

put oneself in another's shoes|another's place|ano

v. phr. To understand another person's feeling imaginatively; try to know his feelings and reasons with understanding; enter into his trouble. It seemed like a dreadful thing for Bob to do, but I tried to put myself in his place. If you will put yourself in the customer's shoes you may realize why the thing isn't selling.

put oneself in sb else's shoes

Idiom[s]: put oneself in someone else's place AND put oneself in someone else's shoes

Theme: EMPATHY

to allow oneself to see or experience something from someone else's point of view.
• Put yourself in someone else's place, and see how it feels.
• I put myself in Tom's shoes and realized that I would have made exactly the same choice.

Put yourself in someone's shoes

If you put yourself in someone's shoes, you imagine what it is like to be in their position.

Shoestring

If you do something on a shoestring, you try to spend the absolute minimum amount of money possible on it.

shoestring catch|catch|shoestring

n. A catch of a hit baseball just before it hits the ground. The left fielder made a shoestring catch of a line drive to end the inning.

step into one's shoes

Idiom[s]: step into one's shoes

Theme: SUBSTITUTION

to take over a job or some role from someone.
• I was prepared to step into the boss's shoes, so there was no disruption when he left for another job.
• There was no one who could step into Alice's shoes when she left, so everything came to a stop.

step into one's shoes|shoe|shoes|step

v. phr. To do what someone else usually does after he has stopped doing it. When Bill's father died, Bill had to step into his father's shoes to support his mother. A coach trains the junior varsity to step into the shoes of the members of the varsity team when they graduate. When the boss retires, his son will step into his shoes.
Compare: IN ONE'S SHOES.

step into someone's shoes

step into someone's shoes
Take someone's place, as in He's groomed Harriet to step into his shoes when he resigns. Also see fill someone's shoes; in someone's shoes.