like old boots

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like old boots

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) Synonym of like anything (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”)
    • 1905, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 639:
      Well, I worked like old boots; and all through the beastly long term I went on steadily creeping ahead of those two.

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References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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