WordNet
n. a lace used for fastening shoes [syn: shoelace, shoestring, shoe string]
Usage examples of "shoe lace".
Having bought his tobacco and observed the life and thought of the town for half an hour--it was market day and the normal stagnation of the place was temporarily relieved and brightened by pigs that eluded their keepers, and a bull calf which caught a stout farmer at the psychological moment when he was tying his shoe lace and lifted him six feet--he made his way to the Emsworth Arms, the most respectable of the eleven inns the citizens of Market Blandings contrived in some miraculous way to support.
I might also stuff a sock down my throat and strangle, or hang myself with a shoe lace.
He wasn't fully awake at the time and mistook this little rattler for a loose shoe lace.