Possible Clues:

• Complete bounder from Oxford?
• By the sound of it, the man will get underfoot
• Such a rotten type can never be one's sole support
• Clog piece
• That's not the sole thing that's under one foot
• Crumbum
• Sole partner
• He will sound no good - not one's sole support
• Palm part
• The male will, you say, stay close by