Meaning of walk a mile in someone's shoes | Babel Free

Definitions

To experience what someone has experienced.

idiomatic

Examples

“It's likely that he didn't begrudge what he had paid Marshall though, because he thought he had finally found a medical person who had walked a mile in his shoes.”

“Michael Poulin, associate professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and colleagues showed in their 2017 study that an “imagine others” perspective leads to less stress than an “imagine self” perspective (i.e., walking a mile in someone else’s shoes).”

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