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fill someone's boots

fill someone's boots verb: to take over someone's role.

Verb

fill someone's boots (third-person singular simple present fills someone's boots, present participle filling someone's boots, simple past and past participle filled someone's boots)

  1. To take over someone's role.
    • He leaves big boots for his successor to fill.2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 37

Synonyms of fill someone's boots

Forms of fill someone's boots

third-person singular presentfills someone's boots
present participlefilling someone's boots
past participlefilled someone's boots
pastfilled someone's boots

Questions about fill someone's boots

What does fill someone's boots mean?
Fill someone's boots means to take over someone's role.
What part of speech is fill someone's boots?
Fill someone's boots is a verb.
What is the past tense of fill someone's boots?
The past tense of fill someone's boots is filled someone's boots.

Words near fill someone's boots in the dictionary

  1. fill or kills
  2. fill out
  3. fill site
  4. fill soil
  5. fill soils
  6. fill someone's boots
  7. fill someone's shoes
  8. fill the bill
  9. fill up
  10. fill'd
  11. fill-dike

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