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Meanings of old glove in English

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Usage of old glove in English
1
About the same as the fitting of an old glove to a hand.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
2
An engagement such as ours cannot be put aside like an old glove.
The Belton Estate
3
Karlov answered to Kitty's description as an old glove answers to the hand.
The Drums of Jeopardy
4
You've been turned over to-night, my boy, like an old glove.
The Mystery of Orcival
5
He thought her poor; and had thrown her aside like an old glove!
The Trumpeter Swan
6
This ball is just wound with string and covered with pieces of old glove.
The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics
7
An' when he tired of you he'd fling you away like an old glove.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
8
He goes too far-andhe goes like an old glove!
The House of the Wolf: A Romance
9
She says I am an old glove that fits well enough but will not cling.
Esther
10
This made things as easy as an old glove.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
11
I have to have Billy's old glove, you know.
Blockade billy
12
I had the part of the old glove maker.
The Elephant Vanishes
13
Do you mean that, after all, I am to be thrown off like an old glove?
The Way We Live Now
14
In his mouth was a piece of an old glove, the rest of which he had ate up.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of Y...
15
Men offer not up old glove leather for incense, nor are beacons fed with undressed hides, I trow.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
16
I threw away a career for the caprice of a man who cast me off like an old glove.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
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