on the other foot
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Banks could be caught on the other foot if market conditions change and Argentina can’t sell new bonds or find other funds to repay them.
Five years later, the shoe was on the other foot.
From Salon
“I don’t want the FCC in the business of telling local affiliated that their licenses will be removed if they broadcast material that the FCC deems to be informationally false,” Shapiro said, warning that “one day the shoe will be on the other foot.”
From Los Angeles Times
If the shoe were on the other foot, who would claim that a jury was truly representative of the community if all men were intentionally and systematically excluded from the panel?
From Slate
And if the shoe was on the other foot and this was a Democratic administration doing these types of things, and I had to go to the 9.5 million people of New Jersey and say, “I’m sorry, the president is unlawfully taking away your health care and telling your kids with special needs that they’re not going to get the services they’re entitled to, but I’m of the same party as the president, so I’m not gonna do anything,” I literally couldn’t sleep at night.
From Slate
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