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Phrase(s): Close only counts in horseshoes (and hand grenades). Prov. Coming close but not succeeding is not good enough. • I came close to winning the election, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

نوع كفش های دوچرخه سواری

Assume someone's position or duties, especially in a satisfactory way. For example, It'll be hard to find someone to fill her shoes when she retires, or John expects his son to fill his shoes at the store. Also see IN SOMEONE'S SHOES.

Phrase(s): fill someone’s shoes Fig. to take the place of some other person and do that person’s work satisfactorily. (As if you were wearing the other person’s shoes.) • I don’t know how we’ll be able to do without you. No one can fill your shoes. • It’ll be difficult to fill Jane’s shoes. She did her job very well.

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A prudish, self-righteous individual, a goody-goody. For example, Phyllis was a real goody two-shoes, tattling on her friends to the teacher. This expression alludes to the main character of a nursery tale, The History of Goody Two-Shoes (1765), who was so pleased when receiving a second shoe that she kept saying "Two shoes." The goody in the story is short for goodwife but means "goody-goody" in the idiom.

Also, in someone else's shoes;in someone's place or stead. Acting for another person or experiencing something as another person might; in another's position or situation. For example, If you were in my shoes, would you ask the new secretary for a date? or In your shoes I wouldn't accept the offer, or Can you go to the theater in my place? or He was speaking in her stead. The idioms alluding to shoes, with their image of stepping into someone's shoes, date from about 1700 and are generally used in a conditional clause beginning with if. Stead, dating from the 1300s, and place, from the 1500s, are used more loosely. Also see FILL SOMEONE'S SHOES; PUT SOMEONE IN HIS OR HER PLACE; TAKE SOMEONE'S PLACE.

Phrase(s): in someone else’s shoes [and] in someone else’s place Fig. seeing or experiencing something from someone else’s point of view. (See also in a bind and the examples.) • You might feel different if you were in her shoes. • Pretend you’re in Tom’s place, and then try to figure out why he acts the way he does.

Phrase(s): It’s ill waiting for dead men’s shoes. Prov. You should not be eager for someone to die so that you inherit something. • Phil: Why should I bother to learn some kind of trade? I’ll be rich when Grandpa dies and leaves me all his money. Alan: It’s ill waiting for dead men’s shoes.

Phrase(s): on a shoestring Fig. with a very small amount of money. • We lived on a shoestring for years before I got a goodpaying job. • John traveled to Florida on a shoestring.

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Take someone's place, as in He's groomed Harriet to step into his shoes when he resigns. Also see FILL SOMEONE'S SHOES; IN SOMEONE'S SHOES.

Phrase(s): step into someone’s shoes Fig. to take over a job or some role from someone. • I was prepared to step into the boss’s shoes, so there was no disruption when he left for another job. • There was no one who could step into Alice’s shoes when she left, so everything came to a stop.

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Phrase(s): wouldn’t want to be in someone’s shoes Fig. would not trade places with someone who is in a bad situation. • Now Jim has to explain to his wife how he wrecked their car. I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes. • She may be rich, but I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes. Everyone in her family hates her.