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like old boots

like old boots prepositional phrase: synonym of like anything (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”).

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, archaic, slang) Synonym of like anything (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”).
    • Well, I worked like old boots; and all through the beastly long term I went on steadily creeping ahead of those two.1905, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 639
    Synonyms:
    like anything

like old boots meaning in Kannada

like old boots in Kannada

ದೃಢವಾಗಿ, ಬಲವಾಗಿ

Synonyms of like old boots

Questions about like old boots

What does like old boots mean?
Like old boots means synonym of like anything (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”).
What is like old boots in Kannada?
Like old boots in Kannada is ದೃಢವಾಗಿ, ಬಲವಾಗಿ. See Like old boots meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is like old boots?
Like old boots is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like old boots in the dictionary

  1. like no other
  2. like nobody else
  3. like nobody's business
  4. like nobody's watching
  5. like of
  6. like old boots
  7. like one means it
  8. like one needs a hole in the head
  9. like one o'clock
  10. like one o'clock half struck
  11. like one owns the place

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