old shoe

noun

, Informal.

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

   Uncle Will is a lovable old shoe.

Other Words From

• old-shoe adjective

Idioms and Phrases

see comfortable as an old shoe .

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg