walk a mile in someone's shoes
English
Etymology
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.
Verb
walk a mile in someone's shoes
- (idiomatic) To experience what someone has experienced.
- 1994, Colin Escott et al., Hank Williams: The Biography, Little, Brown and Company (1995), →ISBN, page 225:
- It's likely that he didn't begrudge what he had paid Marshall though, because he thought he had finally found a medical person who had walked a mile in his shoes.
- 1994, Colin Escott et al., Hank Williams: The Biography, Little, Brown and Company (1995), →ISBN, page 225: