walk a mile in someone's shoes
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From walk + a + mile + in + [possessive pronoun] + shoes. Originally, and still chiefly, found in admonitions not to judge a person until one has walked a mile in that person's shoes.
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walk a mile in someone's shoes (third-person singular simple present walks a mile in someone's shoes, present participle walking a mile in someone's shoes, simple past and past participle walked a mile in someone's shoes)
- (idiomatic) To experience what someone has experienced.