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in stocking feet

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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, stocking

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, stocking