Meaning of pair of shoes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A case or situation that is different from another.
   dated, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pair, shoes.

Examples

““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?””

““He’s all there, if that’ll ease their mind. But where he is—that’s another pair of shoes.””

“Eckhardt was a very different pair of shoes from Gaál.”

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