like old boots
English
Prepositional phrase
- (Britain, 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.
- 1905, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (page 639)
Related terms
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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