Mommy kicks off shoes and joins children in the yard.

We kicked off shoes and adult supervision in what became a storybook summer.

I kick off shoes and the tub fills with water that, truthfully, is a touch colder than I’d like.

While we may kick off shoes and go about in stocking feet in permissive workplaces, bare feet even there are beyond the pale.

They tore at each other, mindless as beasts, dragging at clothes, pulling, tugging, kicking off shoes, all the while feeding greedily with violent kisses.

But with the change of nomenclature and mood in the rock part of the show, a whole new feeling came into the auditorium, as if, formalities now concluded, everyone could kick off shoes and dance till dawn.