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idiombe waiting for dead men's shoes BrEBrEold-fashioned used in order to say that someone is waiting for another person to retirestop working because they are too old or to die, in order to get their job or property, and cannot or will not get a job or property in any other way:I feel sorry for James, if all he can do is hang about the farm waiting for dead men's shoes.There were three of us in that office, with families to support, all waiting for dead men's shoes.
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