English Explanatory Dictionary

walk a mile in someone's shoes

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To experience what someone has experienced.

Pronunciation

En-au-walk a mile in someone's shoes.ogg

Word forms

walk a mile in someone's shoes walks a mile in someone's shoes walking a mile in someone's shoes walked a mile in someone's shoes

Etymology

From walk + a + mile + in + [possessive pronoun] + shoes. Originally, and still chiefly, found in admonitions not to judge a person until one has walked a mile in that person's shoes.

Related words

the shoe is on the other foot which foot the shoe is on
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on W Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary