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TIL the phrase 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' originated in Manhattan where rooms were built on top of one another and when a neighbour took a shoe off and dropped it, you inevitably heard the other one drop as well, hence the phrase meant to await something inevitable which was to happen.

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