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pair of shoes

pair of shoes noun: a case or situation that is different from another.

Noun

pair of shoes (plural pairs of shoes)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) A case or situation that is different from another.
    • “Shall colonists have their horses (and blood ’uns, if you please, good Lord!) and not my London gentleman? No, no. We’ll show ’em another pair of shoes than that, Pip; won’t us?”1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 11
    • “He’s all there, if that’ll ease their mind. But where he is—that’s another pair of shoes.”1876, Robert Edward Francillon, “A Dog and His Shadow, Book II, Chapter XIX”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 16, page 624
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pair, shoes.

pair of shoes meaning in Punjabi and Sinhala

pair of shoes in Punjabi

pair of shoes
جوڑا joṛā, ਜੋੜਾ joṛā

pair of shoes in Sinhala

pair of shoes; plural of සපත්තුව
සපත්තු sapattu

Synonyms of pair of shoes

Forms of pair of shoes

pluralpairs of shoes

Origin of pair of shoes

Perhaps from French chose (“thing, matter”).

Questions about pair of shoes

What does pair of shoes mean?
Pair of shoes means a case or situation that is different from another.
What is pair of shoes in Punjabi?
Pair of shoes in Punjabi is جوڑا (joṛā), ਜੋੜਾ (joṛā). See Pair of shoes meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is pair of shoes?
Pair of shoes is a noun.
What is the plural of pair of shoes?
The plural of pair of shoes is pairs of shoes.

Words near pair of shoes in the dictionary

  1. pair of pliers
  2. pair of scissors
  3. pair of secateurs
  4. pair of shades
  5. pair of shears
  6. pair of shoes
  7. pair of specs
  8. pair of spectacles
  9. pair of stairs
  10. pair of stepladders
  11. pair of sunglasses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pair of shoes (page history and authors); جوڑا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); සපත්තු (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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