old shoe

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noun Informal.

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

old-shoe, adjective

How to use old shoe in a sentence

And a perfectly amber whisky might as well taste like an old shoe.
Why Natural Color Is So Crucial To Understanding A Whisky’s Flavors||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now to my young mistresses go I; somebody cast an old shoe after me.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 (of 15)|Various
La savate—a military practice of beating with an old shoe soldiers unskilful at drill.
Bouvard and Pcuchet|Gustave Flaubert
Paul took from under the thwart an old shoe-knife which had been ground down to one third of its original width.
Little By Little|William Taylor Adams

Your correspondents assume that the old shoe was thrown after the bride for luck, and for luck only.
Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853|Various
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.
Brooke's Daughter|Adeline Sergeant

Other Idioms and Phrases with old shoe

old shoe

see comfortable as an old shoe.