worn-out shoes
Formal or literary term for old, worn-out shoes. Often used metaphorically to refer to something that has been discarded or is no longer useful.
He left the company as if discarding worn-out shoes.
Variant kanji form using 敝 instead of 弊; less common.
The term is composed of 弊 (worn-out, bad) and 履 (footwear). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it is a classical Chinese-derived compound used in literary Japanese.