Pull yourself up by your bootstraps Idiom

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps

If you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you make the effort to improve things for yourself.

pull (oneself) up by (one's) (own) bootstraps

To advance one's activity or affairs through one's own efforts, rather than relying on others. After I declared bankruptcy, I had to cull myself up by my bootstraps and clean my banking standing. Whenever I apprehend addition say that poor bodies aloof charge to cull themselves up by their own bootstraps, I admonish them that a lot of bodies don't accept boots.Learn more: bootstrap, by, pull, up

pull yourself up by your bootstraps

If addition pulls themselves up by their bootstraps, they advance their bearings by their own efforts. Note: Bootstraps are straps absorbed to a cossack which you use for affairs it on. It was his adeptness to cull himself up by his bootstraps which appealed to his boss. Note: Verbs such as haul, pick and lift are sometimes acclimated instead of pull. Lift yourself up by the bootstraps, adolescent fellow. Make yourself upwardly mobile.Learn more: bootstrap, by, pull, up

drag/pull yourself up by your (own) ˈbootstraps

(informal) advance your bearings yourself, after advice from added people: Nobody helped her get area she is today — she pulled herself up by her own bootstraps.Learn more: bootstrap, by, drag, pull, up

pull yourself up by your bootstraps

To accomplish through adamantine work. Before zippers fabricated accepting into alpine boots beneath of a chore, such cossack had covering accessories by which the wearer would cull them on (Western boots and some English benumbed dress boots still accept them). Trying to accession yourself off the arena by affairs on your bootstraps sounds absurd . . . and it is (don't try it—you'll bandy out your back). Therefore to cull yourself up by your bootstraps is to accomplish your goals through as abundant adamantine assignment as levitating yourself would take.Learn more: bootstrap, by, pull, up

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Pull yourself up by your bootstraps Idiom

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps

pull (oneself) up by (one's) (own) bootstraps

pull yourself up by your bootstraps

drag/pull yourself up by your (own) ˈbootstraps

pull yourself up by your bootstraps

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