Jesus boots

Jesus boots

slang Sandals. I've got one friend who always wears cargo shorts and Jesus boots, even if it's freezing cold outside. A: "Ouch! I really smashed my toe!" B: "Well, that's why you don't wear Jesus boots on a bicycle, you dummy!"
See also: boot, Jesus
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Jesus boots

n. sandals. (Use caution with Jesus in profane senses.) Jesus boots are okay in the summer.
See also: boot, Jesus
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • toe-to-toe
  • go toe to toe with someone
  • go toe-to-toe with (someone)
  • go toe-to-toe
  • go toe to toe
  • stub
  • stub (one's) toe
  • stub (one's) toe on (something)
  • the shorts
  • toe
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The chance to shed socks and shoes and walk around in opentoed sandals without, in these enlightened days, being taunted with yells of "Jesus boots".
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Every lovely pair of female pins that beat a merry clip through town seem to be offset by a pair of safari style khaki half-kecks housing a maggoty pair of white -sometimes hairy, sometimes not -spindly horrors rooted in battered Jesus boots or sockless, smelly, sweaty trainees.
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