| 单词 | to pull oneself by one's bootstraps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pull (lift, raise, etc.) oneself (up) by one's (own) bootstraps 2. Colloquial phrase to pull (lift, raise, etc.) oneself (up) by one's (own) bootstraps: to raise or better oneself by one's own unaided efforts; hence allusively. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance or progress [verb (reflexive)] > raise oneself in rank, power, or prosperity > by one's own efforts to pull (lift, raise, etc.) oneself (up) by one's (own) bootstraps1922 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 601 There were..others who had forced their way to the top from the lowest rung by the aid of their bootstraps. 1936 S. J. Kunitz & H. Haycraft Brit. Authors 19th Cent. 213/1 A poet who lifted himself by his own boot-straps from an obscure versifier to the ranks of real poetry. 1937 V. D. Scudder On Journey iii. ii. 306 Humanity could never pull itself up by its own bootstraps. 1960 D. Lessing In Pursuit of Eng. 35 I had no money, I could have got some by writing to my family, of course, but it had to be the bootstraps or nothing. 1962 Listener 23 Aug. 271/2 A rather naïve faith in humanity's ability to pull itself up by its own bootstraps. < as lemmas |
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