"walk a mile in someone's shoes" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-walk a mile in someone's shoes.ogg Forms: walks a mile in someone's shoes [present, singular, third-person], walking a mile in someone's shoes [participle, present], walked a mile in someone's shoes [participle, past], walked a mile in someone's shoes [past]
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. Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=walk a mile in someone's shoes}} walk a mile in someone's shoes (third-person singular simple present walks a mile in someone's shoes, present participle walking a mile in someone's shoes, simple past and past participle walked a mile in someone's shoes)
  1. (idiomatic) To experience what someone has experienced. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: the shoe is on the other foot, which foot the shoe is on
    Sense id: en-walk_a_mile_in_someone's_shoes-en-verb-6Vwk~XhE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "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.",
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        "present",
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    },
    {
      "form": "walking a mile in someone's shoes",
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    },
    {
      "form": "walked a mile in someone's shoes",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Colin Escott et al., Hank Williams: The Biography, Little, Brown and Company, published 1995, →ISBN, page 225:",
          "text": "It's likely that he didn't begrudge what he had paid Marshall though, because he thought he had finally found a medical person who had walked a mile in his shoes.",
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        }
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        "(idiomatic) To experience what someone has experienced."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "the shoe is on the other foot"
        },
        {
          "word": "which foot the shoe is on"
        }
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "walking a mile in someone's shoes",
      "tags": [
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        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walked a mile in someone's shoes",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walked a mile in someone's shoes",
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      "word": "the shoe is on the other foot"
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    {
      "word": "which foot the shoe is on"
    }
  ],
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
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        }
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        "To experience what someone has experienced."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To experience what someone has experienced."
      ],
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    }
  ],
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