you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
proverb A particular solution to one problem or situation is not necessarily suited to all others. Attributed to the Latin writer Publilius Syrus. Increase the advertising budget—that's always your solution, no matter the problem! Well, you can't put the same shoe on every foot, Tom!
See also: cannot, every, foot, on, put, same, shoe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- a trouble shared is a trouble halved
- teach a man to fish
- it takes a village
- village
- an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper
- burnt
- a burnt child dreads the fire
- chickens come home to roost
- chickens come home to roost, one's
- the best-laid plans