like old boots

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Prepositional phrase

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like old boots

  1. (UK, 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.
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References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary