Alternative form of which foot the shoe is on

(idiomatic) A position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death.

(simile) Comfortably familiar.

plural of white-shoe firm

Where the cause of trouble or difficulty is.

Alternative form of goody two shoes

To die by violence, especially by hanging.

(historical) An ankle boot fastened by a row of buttons (in fashion from the late 19th to mid-20th century).

(colloquial) Quite a different matter; something else entirely.

Synonym of put oneself in someone's shoes