what does the phrase "the shoe on the other foot" mean

Question

For the Azerbaijanis, the settlement opens the prospect that at least some of the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people who lost their homes in a separatist war that ended in 1994 could return to the region. That war ended with the shoe on the other foot: a cease-fire seen as catastrophic but inevitable for Azerbaijan after Armenian military victories.

معنی لغوی و معنی اصطلاحی

Answer 1

اوضاع فرق کرده. وضعیت برعکس شده

یعنی قدرت و اختیار را از دست طرف مقابل بدست آوردن، جای ستمگر و ستمدیده عوض شدن

Answer 2

. روزگار همیشه بر یک قرار نمی ماند

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