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walks a mile in someone's shoes

walks a mile in someone's shoes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of walk a mile in someone's shoes.

Meaning of walk 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

Questions about walks a mile in someone's shoes

What is walks a mile in someone's shoes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Walks a mile in someone's shoes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of walk a mile in someone's shoes.

Words near walks a mile in someone's shoes in the dictionary

  1. Walkowiak
  2. Walkowiaks
  3. Walkowski
  4. Walkowskis
  5. walks
  6. walks a mile in someone's shoes
  7. walks a straight line
  8. walks all over
  9. walks and chews gum at the same time
  10. walks around
  11. walks away

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