Put yourself in another’s shoes

If you put yourself in another’s shoes, you try to understand a situation from someone else's point of view. It helps us know how others feel.
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English Idiom: Put oneself in another’s shoes

If you put yourself in another’s shoes, you try to understand a situation from that person’s point of view.


This idiom is often used in adverse situations such as sickness, job loss, war, etc., where it’s quite difficult to understand another person’s plight because we have never experienced it.

Putting yourself in another’s shoes can be an instrumental idiom to help us understand how others are feeling.


This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).  

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 54.  

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