old shoe
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For others, Riviera — playing host to the major championship for the first time — was as comfortable as an old shoe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
My knife also became something of a conversation piece—friends I cooked for wanted to try it, drawing it from its homemade cover, crafted from old shoe boxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
“It was like putting on an old shoe, a shoe so old the laces were gone,” Burrows jokes.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Phil Mendelson, chairman since 2012, is like an old shoe: familiar, agreeably unpretentious and occasionally irritating when he won’t bend when he should.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
Hazel unwrapped the paper to reveal an old shoe box.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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