an old shoe

an old shoe

Someone or something that is very familiar or comfortable, especially in an agreeably unpretentious or unrestrained manner. This car may have seen better years, but it's still like an old shoe to drive around in. My grandma is such an old shoe. She's just the best person to be around.
See also: old, shoe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • comfortable
  • comfortable as an old shoe
  • comfortable as an old shoe, as
  • (as) comfortable as an old shoe
  • pound away
  • à la
  • la
  • breeze past (someone or something)
  • roar away
  • be able to do something in your sleep
References in classic literature
The thieves had already approached Andrea, some screaming, "La savate -- La savate!"* a cruel operation, which consists in cuffing a comrade who may have fallen into disgrace, not with an old shoe, but with an iron-heeled one.
Count of Monte Cristo
The last I saw of them was, when I presently heard a scuffle behind me, and looking back, saw Joe throwing an old shoe after me and Biddy throwing another old shoe.
I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have had an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High-street.
Great Expectations
I have three bites for each flea upon me, and all because I looked--only looked, mark you--at an old shoe in a cow-byre.
"I am not worth a blow from anything better than an old shoe," said the Jackal, and listened again.
Second Jungle Book
And I throw an old shoe after you for luck, and go home again."
Miss or Mrs
"You've said so these three months, Becky," replied Sir Pitt, "and still you go hanging on to my sister, who'll fling you off like an old shoe, when she's wore you out.
Vanity Fair
The terrible weakness had dropped from him like an old shoe. His tongue itched for free speech again, and but a week back the lightest word clogged it like ashes.
Kim
Found "discarded like an old shoe" on Capel Crescent Pillgwenlly, Newport, locals have stepped in to get him medical treatment.
He may look like Hollywood pooch Hooch, but this dog was 'discarded like an old shoe' in Newport street; The dog was found at Capel Crescent Newport is being given medical treatment at a local vets
A BINMAN has returned [euro]1,500 found in an old shoe to an elderly Alzheimer's sufferer.
Binman shoe is good guy for returning [euro]1.5k
Al Tawash Shoes, the building that caught fire, was an old shoe and clothes warehouse, workers in nearby factories and eyewitnesses said.
Fire destroys warehouse in Sharjah Industrial Area
He's got a great, great attitude and has slotted in like an old shoe" - Stoke manager Tony Pulis pays Tuncay Sanli a compliment, sort of.
TheySaid
Barclays started the revolution in 1966 when newly-recruited bank clerks joined a team of managers to launch the country's first flexible friend at an old shoe factory in Northampton.
'Revolution' began in '66; AXE IF YOU DON'T PAY, BUST LIMIT OR DRAW OUT CASH HUGE DEBT
Begin by giving each student an old shoe. Each student writes a short narrative about the owner of this shoe.
Walk in someone else's shoes: high-school
We went in and did some rehearsals, and the moment we plugged in it was like putting on an old shoe." For now he's working on his new opera Ca Ira about the French revolution
The Razz: showbuzz