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stocking feet
Idioms and Phrases
Wearing socks or stockings, but not shoes, as in I got locked out of the house in my stocking feet . [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Earlier in the week, Phillips stood in a state legislator’s kitchen in his stocking feet.
If McCarthy’s voice is any indication, he’s still limber enough to outrun an aggrieved cheetah in his drawers and stocking feet.
By the eighth inning both Nagels, father and son, were in stocking feet, one rally shoe atop each of their heads.
A textile conservator named Julia Brennan and her assistant stand in stocking feet and consider a silk shirtdress displayed on a dressmaker’s form.
You’re on the floor of your preschool classroom, on a mat, in stocking feet, a thin blanket pulled over you.
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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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