Shoe tossing, is the act of using shoes as improvised projectiles or weapons, is a constituent of a number of folk sports and practices. Today, it is commonly the act of throwing a pair of shoes onto telephone wires, powerlines, or other raised wires. A related practice is shoe tossing onto trees or fences.
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Famous quotes containing the words shoe and/or tossing:
“Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one’s trundle-bed.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)
“young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love’s despair
To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)