Put (oneself) in (someone's) shoes verb phrase
To try to imagine how would you feel if you were in someone's else situation
When putting ourselves in others' shoes, we can easily forgive their mistakes.
When putting myself in his shoes, I can partly understand why he did it.
Stop judging him! Why don't you put yourself in his shoes?
To understand easily what someone is thinking or feeling
Be intensely scared or frightened
The verb "put" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.