Bootstraps
in example sentence
You can sit there and tell me all you want, "Hey man, pick yourself up by the
bootstraps
."
More example sentences with word bootstraps
I realized that my story stood in for all those who were expected to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, even if they didn't have any boots; that my organization stood in for all the structural, systemic help that never went to Harlem or Appalachia or the Lower 9th Ward; that my voice stood in for all those voices that seemed too unlearned, too unwashed, too unaccommodated.
They basically pulled themselves up by the bootstraps."
When I began this process, and we began this process, I realized that I had a limited understanding of homelessness and the factors that impacted it, and that I needed a fairly major change in my belief, in my thinking, because I had been raised with the theory of rugged individualism and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps."
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps."
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