Idioms

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be in someone's shoes

To be in the situation, usually a bad or difficult situation, that another person is in.

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the early bird catches the worm

That means someone will have an advantage if they do something immediately, or before other people do it.

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a straw man argument

A strawman argument is the logical fallacy of distorting an opposing position into an extreme version of itself and then arguing against that extreme version.
The most common form. Take a moderate position and inflate it to an extreme. "We should add bike lanes downtown" becomes "So you want to ban all cars." The new version keeps a thread of the original but stretches it past anything that was claimed.