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like old boots en · ADP

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(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:

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tough as old boots

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