| 单词 | another pair of shoes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanother pair of shoes b. another pair of shoes (predicatively): quite a different matter or state of things. the shoe is on the other foot: the facts are otherwise, the position is reversed. Cf. the boot is on the other leg at boot n.3 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 a different (also another) story1688 something else1844 another pair of shoes1861 a different or another kettle of fish1937 a different cup of tea1940 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > reversal [phrase] Tottenham is turned French1546 to turn the tables1612 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)1642 the boot is on the other leg1854 the shoe is on the other foot1933 the wheel has come full circle1944 the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety [phrase] > the facts are otherwise the shoe is on the other foot1933 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xl, in All Year Round 18 May 171/1 We'll show 'em another pair of shoes than that, Pip; won't us? 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 142 ‘That, sir,’ replied Mr. Wegg,..‘is quite another pair of shoes.’ 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 10 ‘Ah! and you'll find a tiger is quite another pair of shoes’, I assured him impressively. 1933 Mystery May 122/1 Inspector Queen has not been able to discover our man-about-town's source of income. A gigolo? Gigolos do not pay for ladies' apartments; the shoe is rather on the other foot. 1939 B. K. Harris Purslane 179 I tell him if he had the waitin' on him to do the shoes would be on the other foot. 1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action ii. 49 All the objections to a selectionist explanation of evolution that are based on the improbability of its results, simply fall to the ground. In fact the shoe is now on the other foot. Improbability is to be expected as the result of natural selection. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 13/4 Most obviously, the shoe is on the other foot. Anyone who knows what rigour is will find it lacking in most of Hegel's transitions. < as lemmas |
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