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Meaning of the shoe is on the other foot | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

The roles of people in a situation have been reversed, such that the advantage has shifted to a party which was previously disadvantaged.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Italiano essere dall'altra parte della barricata

Русский ситуация изменилась на противоположенную

Examples

“Some of the birds on this ship took me for a sucker and tried to make a rummy out of me but I was wise to their game and I guess the shoe is on the other foot this time.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes the shoemaker's children go barefoot the shoemaker's son always goes barefoot the show must go on the sky fell in the sky is the limit