Topic: CLOTHES
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | scoh |
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shoe1 S2 W3
[countable]
[countable]1DCC something that you wear to cover your feet, made of leather or some other strong material : What size shoes do you take? a shoe shop shoe polish
What size shoes do you take?a shoe shopshoe polish2 in someone else's situation, especially a bad one : Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing. Don't be cross with them. Try to put yourself in their shoes (=imagine what it would feel like to be in their situation).
in somebody's shoes
Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing.Don't be cross with them. Try to put yourself in their shoes (=imagine what it would feel like to be in their situation).3 to do a job that someone else used to do, and do it as well as they did : It'll be hard to find someone to fill Pete's shoes.
step into/fill somebody's shoes
It'll be hard to find someone to fill Pete's shoes.4DSH a curved piece of iron that is nailed onto a horse's foot [= horseshoe]
