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Shoe Foot Circumstances Reversed Person Past Team Leader

Phrase/Idiom the shoe is on the other foot
Definition When the circumstances have reversed and one person is now doing what the other did in the past, you can say that the shoe is on the other foot.
Example As a team leader I used to advise her what to do. Now, the shoe is on the other foot.

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