put oneself in someone else's shoes

put oneself in someone else's shoes
put oneself in someone else's place & put oneself in someone else's shoes
to allow oneself to see or experience something from someone else's point of view. •

Put yourself in someone else's place, and see how it feels.

I put myself in Tom's shoes and realized that I would have made exactly the same choice.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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