10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IN ONE'S STOCKING FEET»
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in one's stocking feet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... to my friend's house In one's shirtsleeves: With coat or jacket or jersey off* It
being a very hot day, I was in my shirtsleeves only In one's sleeves: Not wearing
a jacket * He was in his sleeves when I met him In one's stocking feet: With
stocking ...
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BARTLETT'S DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS
Stock-Train. A train of railroad cars loaded with cattle. Stocking-Feet. To be in
one's stocking-feet is to have only one's stockings on, to have one's shoes off.
Stocky. Short and thick. A west of England expression, used STI — STO 451.
JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT,
1859
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
Stock-Train. A train of railroad cars loaded with cattle. Stocking-Feet. To be in
one's stocking-feet is to have only one's stockings on, to have one's shoes off.
Stocky. Short and thick. A west of England expression, used STI — STO 451.
John Russell Bartlett,
1859
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases ...
Stock-Train. A train of railroad cars loaded with cattle. Stocking-Feet. To be in
one's stocking-feet is to have only one's stockings on, to have one's shoes off.
Stocky. Short and thick. A west of England expression, used STI — STO 451.
John Russell Bartlett,
1860
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The Chambers Dictionary
in one's stocking-feet or -soles with stockings or socks but no shoes, [stock1, in
archaic sense of slocking, perh from comparison of the stocks to a pair of
leggings] stockwork slok'vesrk, (min ext) n a mass of veins, impregnations, etc of
ore that ...
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Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
What a convenience to have one's wife's maid to sew on one's buttons, and keep
one's toes in one's stocking-feet ! Declare I lose half my things at the washing for
want of marking. Hanged if I won't marry and be respectable — marriage is an ...
Robert Smith Surtees,
1860
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
What a convenience to have one's wife's .maid to sew on one's buttons, and keep
one's toes in one's stocking feet. Declare I lose half my things at the washing for
want of marking. Hanged if I won't marry and be respectable — marriage is an ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition
Knit close-fitting covering for the foot and leg b : SOCK 2 : something resembling
a stocking; esp : a ring of distinctive color on the lower part of the leg of an animal
— stockinged \-kirjd\ adj — In one's stocking feet : with the feet in stockings but ...
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Aspects of Altaic Civilization III: Proceedings of the ...
... ukkonen thunder, cf. ukko old man, Thor; (the following are paradigmatically
defective, performing the function of adverbs:) kyykkysillaan crouching;
paitaeillaan in one's shirt sleeves; sukkasillaan in one's stocking feet;
varpaisillaan on tiptoe ...
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Honored Guests: Citizen Heroes and the State of the Union
than a decade ago, walking through an airport in one's stocking feet or allowing a
complete stranger to paw through our most intimate apparel and possessions
was the subject of bad dreams. In the post 9/11 world they became just one more
...