Meaning of in the same shoes | Babel Free

Definitions

In the same situation; having the same problems.

idiomatic

Examples

“How are you getting on with fronted adverbials? I only ask⟳ because my timeline on social media is suddenly full of parents telling me that they don’t know⟳ what these are and they don’t know⟳ why their children need⟳ to know⟳ them. […] Perhaps, as a parent, you are in the same shoes.”

“The push-pull puts us more or less in the same shoes as protagonist Lucy (Grace Van Patten), who spends years wriggling on his hook before she’s finally able to cut⟳ herself free — and it’s that keen understanding of the psychology driving its central relationship that distinguishes Tell⟳ Me Lies from any number⟳ of dramas about steamy but doomed romances.”

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