Please explain “more shoes to drop” in this: “Do you think there are more shoes to drop? What do you expect to happen next?”
This means there is probably more information to come, whatever that is, more information for us to get the full picture and hopefully help settle the matter once and for all. “More shoes to drop” is a variation of the idiom “the other shoe to drop”. The other shoe to drop? Yeah, well, you see, when we go to bed, we sit on the edge of the bed, untie our shoes and drop them to the floor one by one before getting under the quilt. Now, suppose people wear heavy shoes and there’s someone living beneath their floor. That someone can hear the thump of a shoe hitting the floor overhead, pretty clearly if it comes during the dead of the night. Now, suppose that someone is a light sleeper and also someone who hates noises during the night – it makes them unable to sleep. Then it becomes plausible that he or she, after hearing the sound of one shoe dropping to the floor, would wait for the other shoe to drop before they can go comfortably to bed. Now, suppose that one night, the person who habitually drops his heavy shoes with a thud suddenly realizes the noise he makes. I mean, after hearing the thud the first shoe makes, he realizes what a terrible noise it must be to the person who lives below. So, gently, he removes his second shoe and puts it on the floor without making the slightly noise. Then he gets into bed and falls asleep. Only to be wakened up by a loud knocking sound on the door. As you may guess, it’s from the neighbor who lives below. Waiting for the other shoe to drop, he’s been staying up all night. Did something like this actually happen? I may have exaggerated a bit but it certainly can happen or could’ve happened. All right, after telling a convoluted story, let’s get back to the idiom of “the other shoe”. It’s an American idiom. Figuratively speaking, the other shoe represents additional information. In other words, there’s more to come. In our example, “there are more shoes to drop” clearly means there is more than one piece of additional information to expect. In other words, there are more to come, inevitably, much more. Here are media examples of the other proverbial shoe in various forms:
This is a huge change, almost incomprehensible. In a single month, from start to finish, privacy assurances that have existed for centuries are being stripped away. Less than two weeks ago, the Panama Papers (PP) was strategically leaked and we reported, “Financial Elite’s Attack on Worldwide Privacy.” We said it was almost surely a planned leak by financial elites to bring in more worldwide capital controls. Some people said we were just paranoid conspiracy theorists (although the hundreds of thousands who follow us regularly knew better). Then Wikileaks published evidence that George Soros (and his evil ilk) were behind the PP and the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, Bradley Birkenfeld, has stated the CIA is obviously behind the leak. More shoes dropped, just as we predicted. The Panama Papers were indeed used to justify a global crackdown on investment anonymity. We posted about it just yesterday in, “Anatomy of a Psyop: How The Elites Justify Global Taxation.” At the time, we reported the IMF and the World Bank were pushing for aggressive pursuit of taxes around the world. Tax “cheats” were causing world poverty and would have to be stopped. Is this all just a coincidence? Perhaps two weeks from leak, to reporting, to meetings and now to worldwide implementation of global regulatory and enforcement programs? You’d have to be drinking a lot of fluoride and turning your brain to mush watching loads of cable television programming not to see this was all pre-planned. Unfortunately, most people actually don’t see it! They should though. This new world order is being rolled out at a lightning pace. Hard to believe how quickly they are putting the pieces into place for a worldwide matrix of total control. Even harder to believe that more are not speaking out against it. - In Historic Move G20 Wipes Out Tax Haven Anonymity – ‘Market Integrity at Stake, DollarVigilante.com, April 16, 2016.
Curry, whose oldest daughter is also named Riley, was touched by the letter and sent a hand-written response, telling Morrison, “We are correcting this now!” It didn’t take long for all of Curry's sneakers to soon be labeled in unisex sizes across both girls and boys categories on the Under Armour website. But Curry wanted to do more. |
