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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Shoe Pinches No one knows where the shoe pinches like the wearer. This was said by a Roman sage who was blamed for divorcing his wife, with whom he seemed to live happily. "For, God it wot, he sat ful still and song, When that his scho ful bitterly him wrong." Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 6,074. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches. |
Inexpedience | Adverb: badly; Adjective:; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches. |
Opposition | In spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth. |
Pain | Source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood. |
Sensibility | Sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SHOE PINCHES |
| Specialty definitions using "SHOE PINCHES": Foppington. (references) |
Expression using "SHOE PINCHES": where the shoe pinches. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SHOE PINCHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Finnish | siitä se kenkä puristaakin (that's where the shoe pinches), kenkä puristaa (the shoe pinches), kenkä ahdistaa (the shoe pinches). (various references) | ||||
German | wo der Schuh drückt (I know where the shoe pinches), ich weiß (I know my own mind., I know where the shoe pinches, I'm blessed if I know.). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | tudja (have a head on one's shoulders, have a way with children, have taken sy's measure, to go around the block, to know how many beans make five, to know how to do sg, to know one's own mind, to know one's place, to know one's stuff, to know poverty, to know the score, to know what one is talking about, to know what's what, to know where the shoe pinches, to know which side one's bread is buttered, to know which way the wind lies, to like what is good, to play one's cards well, to put the shoe on the right foot), hol szorít a csizma (to know where the shoe pinches). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oeshay inchespay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-h-i-n-o-p-s-s" | |
-2 letters: shoeshine. | |
-3 letters: chopines, hospices, penoches, senecios, sheepish. | |
-4 letters: cession, chopine, chopins, cosines, eosines, hipness, hospice, oscines, penises, penoche, peonies, phocine, phonics, phonies, pinches, poesies, seiches, senecio, siphons, sonship, sophies, species, spences, sphenes, sphenic, spinose. | |
-5 letters: censes, cheeps, chines, chinos, chopin, chosen, choses, conies, copens, copies, copses, coshes, cosies, cosine, ecesis, echoes, enosis, eosine, eosins. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-h-i-n-o-p-s-s" | |
+2 letters: schizophrenes. | |
+3 letters: asthenospheric. | |
+5 letters: phosphocreatines. | |
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