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Have you considered pulling yourself up by your bootstraps? (media.scored.co)
posted 14 hours ago by Uncle_Adolf on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +37Score on mirror )
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TallestSkil on scored.co
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>The idiom "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" means to achieve success or improve your life entirely through your own efforts, without any outside help or financial assistance.

[Um.](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps.html)

>The origin of this descriptive phrase isn’t known. It refers of course to boots and the straps that some boots have attatched to help the wearer pull them on and to the imagined feat of a lifting oneself off the ground by pulling on one’s bootstraps. ***This impossible task*** is supposed to exemplify the achievement in getting out of a difficult situation by one’s own efforts.
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