на босу ногу

• НА БОСУ <БОСУ, БОСУЮ> НОГУ

[PrepP; these forms only; usu. adv or nonagreeing postmodif; fixed WO]

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⇒ (to wear shoes, boots etc) without stockings or socks:

- (wear shoes etc) on one's bare (sockless) feet;

- (with) one's feet bare (in one's shoes etc).

     ♦ ...Сандалии были рыночные, дешевые и надеты на босу ногу (Катаев 3)...His sandals were a cheap pair from the market worn on his bare feet (3a).

     ♦ Федор Константинович проводил большую часть дня на темно-синей скамейке в сквере, без пиджака, в старых парусиновых туфлях на босу ногу, с книгой в длинных загорелых пальцах... (Набоков 1). Fyodor, in his shirt-sleeves and with sneakers on his sockless feet, would spend the greater part of the day on an indigo bench in the public garden, a book in his long tanned fingers (1a).

     ♦ Это человек, похожий на Христа, в потрепанном пиджаке и туфлях на босу ногу (Лимонов 1). He is a Christlike man in a ragged suit jacket, his feet bare in his shoes (1a).