"dead men's shoes" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1897, Joseph Smith Fletcher, God's Failures",
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        "A position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death."
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        "(idiomatic) A position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death."
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        "(idiomatic) A position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death."
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