walk a mile in someone's shoes

Meaning

Verb

To experience what someone has experienced.

Origin

From walk + a + mile + in + [possessive pronoun] + shoe. 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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