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fill one's shoes

fill one's shoes {v. phr.}

To take the place of another and do as well; to substitute satisfactorily for.

When Jack got hurt, the coach had nobody to fill his shoes.

Joe hopes to fill his father's shoes.

See: IN ONE'S SHOES.

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[shoe] See: [COMFORTABLE AS AN OLD SHOE], [COMMON AS AN OLD SHOE], [FILL ONE'S SHOES], [IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT], [IN ONE'S SHOES], [SHAKE IN ONE'S SHOES], [SADDLE SHOE], […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[step into one's shoes] {v. phr.} To do what someone else usually does after he has stopped doing it. * /When Bill's father died, Bill had to step into his […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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