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Comment by tweakimp

2 hours ago

Until now I thought it was boots-trapped. I am not a native speaker :)

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crabmusket 24 minutes ago

The idiom is to "pull oneself up by one's boot straps":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Etymology

tweakimp 16 minutes ago

Thanks!