Pinches
Proper noun
Meaning
Pinches (plural Pincheses)
A surname.
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Phrases with the word
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Examples
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste Was she not fair Was she not fruitful' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.'
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.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.
Everyone knows where his own shoe pinches him.