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  What does waiting for the other shoe to drop mean? Another way of saying "I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop" is "I'm expecting something bad to happen." This phrase implies that one is anticipating some sort of impending disaster. One may use this phrase when they are in a difficult situation, like being unemployed, and they are expecting their employer to fire them or their car insurance company not wanting to renew their policy. The idiom also can be used when someone has just had an event come out of left field like getting fired from a job they thought was secure or getting into an accident without any prior signs that it was coming. This phrase is used in many different situations. Example 1: John was surprised when his boss was forced to lay off 5% of the workforce. He was expecting the other shoe to drop and he was worried about how this would affect his family. Image source: https://www.nike.com/ Example 2: The police officer who'

  What does the "Y" mean in shoe sizes? Image source: https://www.istockphoto.com/ Shoe sizes are often abbreviated as a two-digit number followed by a letter that stands for the foot width. For example,  Image source: https://www.vans.com/ a woman with size 7 would wear an M or an E, while a man with size 9 would wear one of two: L or Z. This is because numerical notation is more compatible and easier to remember than writing out measurements each time they appear.  Image source: https://www.newbalance.com/ One difficulty arises when there is no prefix, like 8 or 6, which makes what letters come following it difficult to decipher.     Image source: https://www.dsw.com/   The word shoe size actually refers to the length between your heel and the tip of your longest toe. Shoe manufacturers have divided this value into thirds, so there are three sizes for each shoe size. The first number denotes the length of the heel, while the second indicates how wide the shoe is in it