fill someone's boots

verb

To take over someone's role.

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fill someone's shoes
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Meanings

verbfill someone's boots (third-person singular simple present fills someone's boots, present participle filling someone's boots, simple past and past participle filled someone's boots)

present singular third person fills someone's boots · participle present filling someone's boots · participle past filled someone's boots · past filled someone's boots

  1. To take over someone's role.

    He leaves big boots for his successor to fill.

    2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 37

    Synonyms: fill someone's shoes

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo take over someone's role.

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fill someone's shoes
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fill someone's shoes
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