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Meaning of you cannot put the same shoe on every foot | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

A method or technique that works in one situation does not necessarily work in all situations.

Examples

“Application of the adage that "you cannot put the same shoe on every foot" produces no hardship whatsoever, since the terms of the trust may be made exactly to fit the business to be undertaken.”

“What I tell these misinformed inmates is that you cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”

“Publilius Syrus said it a long time ago: You can't put the same shoe on every foot.”

CEFR level

C2

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

See also

you could cut the air with a knife you could cut the atmosphere with a knife you could have fooled me you couldn't make it up you don't dip your pen in company ink you don't fish off the company pier