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What Is 'ITSFWI'? What Does ITSFWI Mean?

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Question: What Is 'ITSFWI'? What Does ITSFWI Mean?
Answer: "ITSFWI" is "If the Shoe Fits, Wear It!". This is internet shorthand for saying "Hah! This applies to YOU!". ITSFWI is commonly used as a form of jibing or joking, where the user wants to place a statement back on the speaker.

ITSFWI can be spelled in all lowercase or all uppercase; both versions mean the same thing. Just be careful not to type entire sentences in all uppercase, lest you be accused of shouting online.

Example of ITSFWI usage:

  • (User 1) Can you believe this? I have to attend a mandatory seminar on harassment at the office.
  • (User 2) What's the problem with that?
  • (User 1) I don't need a seminar on harassment. What do they think we are? Idiots?
  • (User 2) ITSFWI! ROFL!


Another example of ITSFWI usage:

  • (User 1, instant message) Why are you complaining so much? She's just testing you.
  • (User 2) Yeah, but she keeps emailing me every day to remind me its our anniversary next week. I'm not an insensitive jerk, you know.
  • (User 1) LOL ITSFWI, dude!


The ITSFWI expression, like many cultural curiousities of the Internet, is a part of modern English communication.

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