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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

“These new projects are welcome, but workers can’t be discarded like an old shoe.”

“It was like putting on an old shoe, a shoe so old the laces were gone,” Burrows jokes.

You're risking agonizing disease and an early death for the payoff of smelling like an old shoe.

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Of Carver, Colescott observed in 1990, “Subversion of this icon, a quasi-religious image that everyone bows to and believes in — but nobody thinks about — seemed like a good idea, a new life for an old shoe.”

For Neill, playing Grant was like putting on an old shoe: “It’s comfortable and I know exactly what to do with the shoe.”

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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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