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old shoe

noun

, Informal.
  1. a person or thing that is comfortably familiar and unpretentious:

    Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.



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Other Words From

  • old-shoe adjective
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Idioms and Phrases

see comfortable as an old shoe .
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Example Sentences

And a perfectly amber whisky might as well taste like an old shoe.

Now to my young mistresses go I; somebody cast an old shoe after me.

La savate—a military practice of beating with an old shoe soldiers unskilful at drill.

Paul took from under the thwart an old shoe-knife which had been ground down to one third of its original width.

Your correspondents assume that the old shoe was thrown after the bride for luck, and for luck only.

Don't let me feel that you have merely played with me, and are ready to cast me off like an old shoe when you are tired.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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