Immigrant families, or those pulled up by the bootstraps, know different.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Ireland will pull itself up by its bootstraps.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She is proud of her bootstraps ascent.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is someone who pulled himself up by the bootstraps.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Councils have had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps in the online age.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Goody had accumulated her estimated 8 million fortune by hauling herself up by her bootstraps.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Pulled up by your bootstraps!
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Both men pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, only to fall in with the wrong people and die without dignity.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Individuals, even from very disadvantaged backgrounds, can and do pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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All related terms of 'bootstraps'
bootstrap
If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone , using very few resources.
boot
Boots are shoes that cover your whole foot and the lower part of your leg.
to your bootstraps
if someone is, for example , British to their bootstraps, they are typically British
by one's bootstraps
by one's own efforts ; unaided
pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
If you have pulled yourself up by your bootstraps , you have achieved success by your own efforts , starting from very difficult circumstances and without help from anyone.
pull yourself up by your bootstraps
to improve your situation by your own efforts , without help from anyone else
to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
If you have pulled yourself up by your bootstraps , you have achieved success by your own efforts , starting from very difficult circumstances and without help from anyone.