Idiom
if the shoe fits
Meaning
Ellipsis of if the shoe fits, wear it.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If the shoe fits, wear it.”
“He complained that the criticism was unfair, but I told him that if the shoe fits, wear it.”
“While she denied being lazy, her colleagues whispered that if the shoe fits, wear it, especially given her recent lack of effort on the project.”
Examples
simple
“If the shoe fits, wear it.”
contextual
“He complained that the criticism was unfair, but I told him that if the shoe fits, wear it.”
complex
“While she denied being lazy, her colleagues whispered that if the shoe fits, wear it, especially given her recent lack of effort on the project.”
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