Noun : He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : The business was a bootstrap operation for the first ten years. ,a bootstrap process. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : She spent years bootstrapping herself through college. From Dictionary.com.
Hauling yourself up by your bootstraps is very difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Up By Your Bootstraps] Reference
You know, that whole conservative "bootstraps" thing. From Wordnik.com. [Little More Light Today] Reference
Sadly, my footwear never came with "bootstraps," so needless to say my school years weren't my best. From Wordnik.com. [Mulling] Reference
Really, is the government giving you the bootstraps?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2008] Reference
And so she's one of those up from the bootstraps types. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 26, 2009] Reference
This is a parish that pulled itself up by the bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2006] Reference
Partly because he's got this up from the bootstraps story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2004] Reference
His bootstraps were pulled up by his well-connected family. From Wordnik.com. [The Murphy Brown Policy] Reference
Nux lay on my foot, licking my insole through my bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
TILSLEY: People who are pulling Maputo up by its bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2005] Reference
I just think that, again, pull yourself up by the bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008] Reference
You have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and keep going. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2009] Reference
He believes it's time Africa pulled itself up by its bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2005] Reference
This idea of self-reliance, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [Country-Punk Langhorne Slim Rocks the 'BPP'] Reference
They pulled up their bootstraps and said, we're going to rebuild. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 2, 2008] Reference
These are people who couldn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2004] Reference
Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, even if you don't have boots. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2008] Reference
Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps -- even if you don't have boots. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2008] Reference
You know, you have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and just keep going. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2009] Reference
A lot of people are pulling themselves up by their bootstraps as best they can. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008] Reference
You've got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and go out and look for a job. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008] Reference
So there's no person who walks around truly pulls themselves up by their bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference
By any measure, his is not a particularly hard-scrabble, up-by-the-bootstraps kind of story. From Wordnik.com. [What's eating Charlie Baker?] Reference
Let's pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and let's move forward and I think it's a great story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2008] Reference
If you're a child who is born into poverty, pick yourself up by your bootstraps, you're on your own. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not a case of, you know, pulling up your bootstraps and so you'll be better. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2003] Reference
I picked up my bootstraps, promised Carl (and his friends and family) that we would get through this. From Wordnik.com. [YOU Voted: The Most Inspiring 'Breakthrough' Of The Week!] Reference
Yet, we expect each of them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become productive citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Jodie Levin-Epstein: Make Kids' Brains "Too Big to Fail"] Reference
There was a time in America when there existed a "bootstraps positivity" that claimed to cure all ills. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Anderson: Where Are the Winners Now?] Reference
As a person who pulled them up in the business community from his bootstraps, is that the way to do it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2008] Reference
"How are we supposed to pull ourselves up from bootstraps if the banks are closing the shoe store," says. From Wordnik.com. [Bank Aid Pushed For Homeowners] Reference
Born into poverty, you're on your own, pick yourself up by your bootstraps even if you don't have boots. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008] Reference
So, with that in mind, I've tried to "pick myself up by bootstraps" (as he'd say) and get on with gettin 'on. From Wordnik.com. [grizmom Diary Entry] Reference
And I think that it's really easy to sort of throw it back to the old pull yourself up by the bootstraps thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009] Reference
When MacDonald deigns to go to school during this period, a teacher tells him to pull himself up by his bootstraps. From Wordnik.com. [Bearing Witness] Reference
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