in your shoes
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4.6
- idiom
- Informal
:
en tu lugar
- What I know is that if I were in your shoes and I was looking to get away from that, I'd have to figure out how much money it would cost to, to walk away.
- walk a mile in your shoes
- want to be in your shoes
- putting myself in your shoes
I, when I've been in your shoes, it's been, it's been miserable.
- I, when I've been in your shoes, it's been, it's been miserable.
- It's discovering what it feels like to walk in your shoes today.
- If Dave and Sharon Ramsey were in your shoes, that's exactly what we would do.
- And So what would I do if I woke up in your shoes?
- And it's almost you giving back to those who have been in your shoes.
- And she can't even mimic those words because she doesn't know how to stand in your shoes because she doesn't have empathy.
- So it's not quite me putting myself in your shoes yet.
- But you can't really compare the two, if you know what I mean, because I'm not in your shoes and you're not in my shoes.
- If I was in your shoes and I wasn't a doctor, I could see your perspective clearly.
- You must talk to that one person who has been in your shoes before.
Examples
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I hope that you get to feeling stronger and more confident, and hopefully the difficult experience that you went through—and blogging about it—will help others who might be in your shoes one day.
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Okay, I was in your shoes not long ago.
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You must talk to that one person who has been in your shoes before.
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There is somebody that would kill to be in your shoes and go through the problems that you have.
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Truth be told, they would upset me too if I were in your shoes.
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If I were in your shoes, I would tell her... for several reasons.
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If I were in your shoes, I'd probably think the same way.
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I can't even imagine being in your shoes!
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Listen, if I were in your shoes, weathering (pun intended) what you've been through, eating healthy would be the last thing on my mind.
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If I were in your shoes, I would feel overwhelmed by the pressure.
Synonyms
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3.4
In the same situation as someone else so you understand how they feel or act
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3.7
Imagine being in another person's situation to understand their feelings
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4.2
To imagine being in another person's situation to understand how they feel
In the same situation as someone else
Imagine yourself in another person's situation to understand how they feel
To imagine how someone else feels and sees things
Imagine being the other person to understand their feelings and situation
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase uses literal parts ('in' + 'your' + 'shoes') to express being located inside someone’s footwear, but its real use is a metaphor mapping shoes onto a person’s situation; a B1 learner who knows the words can often guess the intended meaning, yet the metaphorical leap is not purely compositional. Cross-linguistically speakers use various mappings (place/position, skin, shoes), so the sense is partially transparent but still relies on idiomatic metaphor and prior exposure for full predictability.
Etymology
In your shoes comes from the picture of putting on someone else's shoes and walking their path. One popular story says this picture came to mean 'in the same situation', so it now means you would feel or act the same way if you were them.