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in stocking feet
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in (your) stocking/stockinged feet
wearing socks or a similar covering on your feet, but not wearing shoes She crept upstairs in stocking feet so as not to wake the baby. He stood five feet five in his stockinged feet. (= his height was five feet five, without shoes)
See also: feet

in your stocking feet
wearing socks but not shoes They hurried down the hall to the doctor's room in their stocking feet.
See also: feet


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Byline: Stuart Maconie IT'S not just that I'm an unrepentant short***e who stands 5ft 8in in stockinged feet that makes me warm to Nicolas Sarkozy.
So imagine my dismay when I came home in the dark, the wind already howling, to find my son standing in stockinged feet in the middle of the road with what looked like a toy wind mill.
Most often the lady is required to be barefoot, or in stockinged feet.
 
 
 
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