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Shoe Pinches

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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.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Shire and County
Shire Horses
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Shoe
Shoe-loosed
Shoe Pinches
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