Pull the boots up

[Alison Murie]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Paul Frank wrote:

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> Isn't the usual expression to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps"?
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> Paul
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I think "socks" is heard more often.
AM

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