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Phrase(s): put oneself in someone else’s place [and] put oneself in someone else’s shoes
to allow oneself to see or experience something from someone else’s point of view. • Put yourself in someone else’s place, and see how it feels. • I put myself in Tom’s shoes and realized that I would have made exactly the same choice., Phrase(s): put one in one’s place
to rebuke someone; to remind one of one’s (lower) rank or station. • The boss put me in my place for criticizing her. • Then her boss put her in her place for being rude.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs