stocking feet

Wearing socks or stockings, but not shoes, as in I got locked out of the house in my stocking feet. [First half of 1800s]

See also: feet, stocking

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He had replaced his parka with his fur cap and blanket-cloth coat, kicked off his frozen moccasins, and was dancing in his stocking feet.

And for the rest of the night he danced on in his stocking feet, and at five in the morning, rapping thunderously on the door of his new partners' cabin, he could be heard singing the song that had given him his name:--

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He followed Rosa in his stocking feet, walking on tiptoe.

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I took off my shoes when I gained the forecastle head, and went noiselessly aft in my stocking feet.

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But the whole effect is spoiled when I look at them - at Tetralani, five feet ten in her stocking feet and weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and at Barillo, a scant five feet four, greasy-featured, with the chest of a squat, undersized blacksmith, and at the pair of them, attitudinizing, clasping their breasts, flinging their arms in the air like demented creatures in an asylum; and when I am expected to accept all this as the faithful illusion of a love-scene between a slender and beautiful princess and a handsome, romantic, young prince - why, I can't accept it, that's all.

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She knew a small side door which she could unbolt herself and she flew downstairs in her stocking feet and put on her shoes in the hall.

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For the first time they would be alone together indoors, and they would sit there, one on each side of the stove, like a married couple, he in his stocking feet and smoking his pipe, she laughing and talking in that funny way she had, which was always as new to him as if he had never heard her before.

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Some, like my good friend Dwight Schuh, often remove their boots and make the final approach in their stocking feet.

Western & Northern hunting: it takes different tactics to score on big game in the West and North

In a bravura pre-credits sequence we saw the slightly squiffy DC Dinah Kowalska cabbing it home from a do, literally kicking her boyfriend to the kerb following an argument en route, before giving chase in her stocking feet to a murder suspect she'd just spied in her peripheral.

New police series is utterly non-PC

At that point I noticed A that he was indeed in his stocking feet.

A stick-y situation

At that point I noticed that that point I noticed that A he was indeed in his stocking feet.

How Big Coat revealed my inner Vinnie

At that point I noticed that he was indeed in his stocking feet.

A stick-y situation

He sat for much at the start of the show, then grew increasingly physical, impersonating jujitsu and gymnastics poses, laying on the floor in stocking feet and thrusting a fist upward in a gesture of battling the everyday oppression of living with a wife.

On stage, embattled Cosby old self

The Duke was standing on a dais, or podium, while diminutive Mrs Morris is only just over 5ft tall in stocking feet.

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In the evening her grandmother arrives, sits down on the floor beside her, takes her stocking feet in her lap and warms them with her hands, only then is the granddaughter able to cry for the first time since the death of her child.