Throwing an Old Shoe for Luck
. “Now, for goode luck caste an old shoe after me.”—Haywood (1693–1756).
“Ay, with all my heart, there’s an old shoe after you.”—The Parson’s Wedding (Dodsley, vol. ix. p. 499).
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.