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Be in someone’s shoes

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Be in someone’s shoes

Reader's question:

What will you do if you were in my shoes ? Could you explain “be in someone’s shoes”?

For us to be in someone’s shoes means to put us in their position or situation. In the example above, what will you do if you were in my shoes means, to put it in other words, what will you do if you were put in my situation, if you were I?

Supposedly no two people have the same feet, exactly the same in size and shape. Therefore, no two people wear the same shoes, hence the saying.

What this age-old saying implies is sometimes this: it’s easy to talk about other people’s imperfections because you don’t have to face their particular difficulties and problems. If you were in their situation, you probably wouldn’t have done any better.

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