follow in someone's footsteps

English

Alternative forms

• follow in someone's steps

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Verb

follow in someone's footsteps (third-person singular simple present follows in someone's footsteps, present participle following in someone's footsteps, simple past and past participle followed in someone's footsteps)

1. (figuratively) To follow the same path as someone; to take actions similar to another's.

   Synonyms: tread in someone's footsteps, tread in someone's steps

Translations

follow the same path as someone

• Finnish: seurata jalanjäljissä
• French: marcher sur les pas de quelqu’un (fr), marcher dans les pas de quelqu’un (fr)
• Galician: seguir os pasos de alguén
• Icelandic: að fylgja í fótspor einhvers
• Italian: seguire le orme
• Polish: iść w czyjeś ślady impf, pójść w czyjeś ślady pf
• Russian: идти́ по чьим-либо стопа́м (idtí po čʹim-libo stopám)
• Swahili: fuata nyayo
• Telugu: అడుగుజాడల్లో (aḍugujāḍallō)