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jtbaker
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boot = strapped
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tweakimp
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Until now I thought it was boots-trapped. I am not a native speaker :)
crabmusket
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The idiom is to "pull oneself up by one's boot straps":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Etymology
tweakimp
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Thanks!
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