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as ever trod shoe leather

as ever trod shoe leather is the alternative form of as ever trod shoe-leather.

Meaning of as ever trod shoe-leather

Phrase

as ever trod shoe-leather

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) As ever existed or lived.
    • As grate a rascal, as ever trod shoe-leather.1767, Andrew Barton [pseudonym; Thomas Forrest or Francis Hopkinson?], The Disappointment, or, The Force of Credulity: A New American Comic-opera, of Two Acts, New York [i.e., Philadelphia, Penn.]...

Questions about as ever trod shoe leather

What is as ever trod shoe leather the alternative form of?
As ever trod shoe leather is the alternative form of as ever trod shoe-leather.

Words near as ever trod shoe leather in the dictionary

  1. as builts
  2. as clever as a cartload of monkeys
  3. as demure as an old whore at a christening
  4. as easy as rolling off a log
  5. as ever
  6. as ever trod shoe leather
  7. as ever trod shoe-leather
  8. as far as
  9. as far as I am concerned
  10. as far as I'm concerned
  11. as far as one can tell

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