"put the same shoe on every foot" meaning in English

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Phrase

Etymology: From the proverb, you cannot put the same shoe on every foot. Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} put the same shoe on every foot
  1. (idiomatic) To attempt to apply a single solution to different problems. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-put_the_same_shoe_on_every_foot-en-phrase-hRZsuBwC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1883, Victor Lafayette Conrad, The Luther Memorial, page 772:",
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          "ref": "2007, Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "You would laugh at a cobbler who should attempt to put the same shoe on every foot.",
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          "ref": "2014 November 3, Francis Greenburger, “Incarcerating the Mentally Ill Makes Us All Less Safe”, in VICE News:",
          "text": "Watch anything in a cage, that is run on a regulatory system of control, sensory deprivation and or sensory abuse, really really poor nutrition, no regard for individual dignity, trying to put the same shoe on every foot,etc.",
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