put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes
Definition
› to imagine how someone else feels in a difficult situation: Put yourself in my place - what else could I have done?Imagining and conceivingEmpathy and sensitivitySympathy and compassion
(Definition of put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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put your money where your mouth is idiom
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put your neck on the line idiom
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put your shirt on sth idiom
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put your thinking cap on idiom
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put yourself across phrasal verb
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put yourself out phrasal verb
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put-down noun
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put-on noun
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put-up job noun
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put/get sb's back up idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume verb (ACCEPT)
- blue-sky adjective
- conceivable adjective
- conceive verb (IMAGINE)
- conceive verb (INVENT)
- conceptualize verb
- dream verb (HOPE)
- dream verb (SLEEP)
- fertile adjective (IMAGINATION)
- grant verb (ACCEPT)
- guess verb
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth phrasal verb
- picture noun (IMAGE)
- picture verb
- presumption noun
- reckon verb (CONSIDER)
- run riot idiom
- vision noun (MENTAL IMAGE)
- vision noun (VIEW OF THE FUTURE)
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