trade places with (someone)

phrase

: to be in someone else's situation
I would love to trade places with him.

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The couple's son Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe), desperate to help his beloved sister Judith (Olivia Lynes) who appears beyond help from the ravages of the disease, wishes aloud to trade places with her. Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025 The former would trade places with the latter in a nanosecond, and the reverse isn’t remotely true. Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 11 July 2025 The Shatter the Glass star says his boss at the tour guide company then told him to trade places with the bride. Erin Clack, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025 The stock has appreciated 800% over the past two years, with Nvidia adding more than $3 trillion in market cap to trade places with Apple as the world’s largest company. Greg McKenna, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024 This time, Tess and Anna will trade places with two 14-year-old girls, Harper and Lily. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2024 In February, Biden taunted Xi during his State of the Union address, arguing that no leader would want to trade places with the Chinese leader because of the scale of the problems that China confronts. Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2023

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“Trade places with (someone).” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20places%20with%20%28someone%29. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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