walking a mile in someone's shoes

Verb

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.
   • 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.1994, Colin Escott et al., Hank Williams: The Biography, Little, Brown and Company, published 1995, →ISBN, page 225