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English Idiom: Big shoes to fill
Everybody gets replaced.
No matter what your job is, you will be replaced one day because you retire or move on to a better job.
The main thing is that you leave behind some big shoes to fill when you go.
The idiom, big shoes to fill, means that it will be hard for the person who is replacing someone else to do a job as well as they did.
Now, keep in mind today’s idiom is entirely different from another idiom involving shoes: put yourself in another’s shoes.
If you need to be reminded of what that means, click the link.
Most of us want to leave some mark on the world.
Of course, nobody wants to be forgotten or fade into history.
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