Dave Barry

U.S. humorist

I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I took his shoes.

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fill one's shoes

[fill one's 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 […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

step into one's shoes

[step into one's shoes] {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 […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

be in someone else's shoes

[be 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 […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

shoe

[shoe] See: [COMFORTABLE AS AN OLD SHOE], [COMMON AS AN OLD SHOE], [FILL ONE'S SHOES], [IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT], [IN ONE'S SHOES], [SHAKE IN ONE'S SHOES], [SADDLE SHOE], […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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