The word 'thongs' is correct and usable in written English.
It is another term for "flip-flops" or "sandals," typically worn on the feet. Example: "I slipped on my thongs and headed to the beach for a day of sun and surf."
There was also an attempt to set a world record for the longest line of giant inflatable thongs on the Sunshine Coast.
But as Australia joins the 190-plus other countries navigating the climate stepping stones, it's hard to know whether the Aussies are wearing rubber thongs (those are flip-flops to foreigners) or appropriately stout walking boots.
Thongs (aka flip-flops) melted and petrol pumps were turned off to stop fuel vaporising.
She jumped on the train as it took off, but I struggled in my thongs to reach the door in time to hop on.
Looking back on it all now, I can see there are some lessons in all this, but very obvious ones that shouldn't have required a near-death experience: Never run in thongs.
One of the Sábado Gigante's best-known segments, for instance, is Miss Colita (roughly translated, it means Miss Ass); a pageant in which women parade around the stage in thongs while Don Francisco comments and audience members vote for their favorite buttocks.
But Bond is no Beckham.When David Beckham ties back his hair or wraps himself in a sarong, or his wife says he wears her thongs, he sends a powerful message to a new kind of male, according to Marian Salzman of Euro RSCG Worldwide, a leading advertising agency.
At the moment, Swedes are discussing women's quotas for the top levels of corporate management and trying to do something about what ministers call the "pornogrification" of everyday life sexy advertisements, thongs being marketed to teenagers, and so on.
Both boxes are secured by leather thongs.
The rocket body was lashed with leather thongs to a long bamboo stick.
Until the middle of the 19th century the metal portion of the skate was fastened to a wooden base or footplate and the whole of the skate was fastened to the foot with leather thongs or straps.
