Meaning:
comfortable
'kʌmfətəbladj.
providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind
more than adequate
sufficient to provide comfort
in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
comfortable Idiom, Proverb
comfortable as an old shoe
Idiom(s): (as) comfortable as an old shoe
Theme: COMFORT
Very comfortable; very comforting and familiar.
• This old house is fine. It's as comfortable as an old shoe.
• That's a great tradition—comfortable as an old shoe.
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adj. phr., informal Pleasant and relaxed; not stiff, strict or too polite; easy to talk and work with. The stranger was as comfortable as an old shoe, and we soon were talking like old friends.
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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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