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Brewer's: Golden Shoe
(A). A pot of money. “The want of a golden shoe” is the want of ready cash. It seems to be a superlative of a “silver slipper,” or good luck generally, as he “walks in silver slippers.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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