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.

Equivalents

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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