put the shoe on the other foot

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put the shoe on the other foot (third-person singular simple present puts the shoe on the other foot, present participle putting the shoe on the other foot, simple past and past participle put the shoe on the other foot)

  1. (figurative) To reverse the roles or positions of two things.