stocking feet

Idioms  

1. Wearing socks or stockings, but not shoes, as in I got locked out of the house in my stocking feet. [First half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

“My carriage is large, as you see. And it seemed too fine a day to stay indoors skating around the floor in one’s stocking feet, don’t you agree?”

From Literature

Earlier in the week, Phillips stood in a state legislator’s kitchen in his stocking feet.

From Seattle Times

If McCarthy’s voice is any indication, he’s still limber enough to outrun an aggrieved cheetah in his drawers and stocking feet.

From New York Times

By the eighth inning both Nagels, father and son, were in stocking feet, one rally shoe atop each of their heads.

From Seattle Times

A textile conservator named Julia Brennan and her assistant stand in stocking feet and consider a silk shirtdress displayed on a dressmaker’s form.

From Washington Post