No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.
I hate to complain. . . No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.