a long strip of cloth used in former times to bind women's feet or used by men to wrap their feet when wearing cloth socks

(metaphor) something long and unpleasant, such as a boring speech or overly long writing, often used in the xiehouyu 懒婆娘的裹脚布 lǎn​pó​niáng​de​guǒ​jiǎo​bù (like a lazy woman's foot-binding bandages: both smelly and long)