Daily Archives: May 20, 2021

Waiting for the other shoe to drop is a phrase from the early 20th century.  The phrase comes from a time when apartments in New York were built with bedrooms one on top of each other and no sound reducing insulation.  Shoes were made of leather and the soles were thick making the shoes heavy.  It was common to hear your upstairs neighbor take off a shoe, drop it, and then repeat the action.  The saying became shorthand for something…..

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