英语词汇“to fill a person's shoes”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to fill a person's shoes (also boots): to take over another person’s function or duties, esp. to do so satisfactorily. Cf. to step into the shoes of at shoe n. 2k.

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1831 Standard 15 Nov. The name of his alleged successor is also impudently brought forward, as if there were one man capable of filling his shoes.

1854 Belfast News-Let. 26 May Mr. Gladstone will have bequeathed a pleasant reversion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer who may then fill his shoes.

1920 N.Y. Tribune 26 Oct. 10/5 Think you I'd like to fill his boots?—Youbetcherhat!

1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xx. 416 There is always a new crop coming on—of younger fellows from whom emerge men to fill the shoes of ‘the old barons’ when they are slain or ‘put away’.

1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) ii. 48 I can't fill his boots, Katie. And I've lived in his shadow so long I don't know what to do without him.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 13 July 138/2 Don't razz Roth for washing out in Stern's morning slot unless you're convinced you could have filled those shoes yourself.

单词	to fill a person's shoes
释义	> as lemmas to fill a person's shoes (also boots) to fill a person's shoes (also boots): to take over another person’s function or duties, esp. to do so satisfactorily. Cf. to step into the shoes of at shoe n. 2k. ΚΠ 1831 Standard 15 Nov. The name of his alleged successor is also impudently brought forward, as if there were one man capable of filling his shoes. 1854 Belfast News-Let. 26 May Mr. Gladstone will have bequeathed a pleasant reversion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer who may then fill his shoes. 1920 N.Y. Tribune 26 Oct. 10/5 Think you I'd like to fill his boots?—Youbetcherhat! 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xx. 416 There is always a new crop coming on—of younger fellows from whom emerge men to fill the shoes of ‘the old barons’ when they are slain or ‘put away’. 1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) ii. 48 I can't fill his boots, Katie. And I've lived in his shadow so long I don't know what to do without him. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 13 July 138/2 Don't razz Roth for washing out in Stern's morning slot unless you're convinced you could have filled those shoes yourself. extracted from fillv. < as lemmas
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