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where the shoe pinches

where the shoe pinches phrase: where the cause of trouble or difficulty is found or located.

Phrase

where the shoe pinches

  1. Where the cause of trouble or difficulty is found or located.

Questions about where the shoe pinches

What does where the shoe pinches mean?
Where the shoe pinches means where the cause of trouble or difficulty is found or located.
What part of speech is where the shoe pinches?
Where the shoe pinches is a phrase.

Words near where the shoe pinches in the dictionary

  1. where it's at
  2. where someone is coming from
  3. where someone lives
  4. where the puck is going
  5. where the puck is heading
  6. where the shoe pinches
  7. where the sun doesn't shine
  8. where the sun don't shine
  9. where there is a will
  10. where there is a will there is a way
  11. where there is a will, there is a way

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