(as) comfortable as an old shoe
Very familiar or comfortable, especially in an agreeably unpretentious or unrestrained manner. This car may have seen better years, but it's still comfortable as an old shoe to drive around in. A: "Why do you insist on wearing that beat-up old coat? Feathers are literally coming out of it!" B: "Because it's comfortable as an old shoe. Now, leave me alone!" It will take time, of course, but eventually your new job will feel comfortable as an old shoe.
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comfortable as an old shoe, as
Familiar and very much at ease, as in Kathy's really enjoying her third summer at the same camp-for her it's comfortable as an old shoe . This simile was once put as easy as an old shoe, first recorded in J. T. Brockett's North Country Glossary (1825). It was most often applied to friends, as in the proverb Old shoes are easy, old friends are best, but today it is used more broadly for easy familiarity in any situation.
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