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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toattempttoapplyasinglesolutiontodifferentproblems.1883, Victor Lafayette Conrad,The Luther Memorial, page772:The king of England, who is your holiness's son, is not so like the rest of the world. We cannotput the same shoe on every foot.2007, Robert Mayhew,Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead,→ISBN, page122:You would laugh at a cobbler who should attempt toput the same shoe on every foot.2014November 3, Francis Greenburger, “Incarcerating the Mentally Ill Makes Us All Less Safe”, inVICE News:Watch anything in a cage, that is run on a regulatory system of control, sensory deprivation and or sensory abuse, really really poor nutrition, no regard for individual dignity, trying toput the same shoe on every foot,etc.
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