literally referring to what Abraham Lincoln (read a few law books he found in a junk barrel, then became a lawyer and later President of The United States and Booker T Washington (learned to read and write as a black apprentice sailor) actually did, this term means:
to legally work, or rather legally to nigger, one's way up the social ladder of one's society in one's zeitgeist using nothing but one's own blood, sweat, toil, common sense, education and street-smarts
to legally work, or rather legally to nigger, one's way up the social ladder of one's society in one's zeitgeist using nothing but one's own blood, sweat, toil, common sense, education and street-smarts
son: I don't understand how Abraham Lincoln legally achieved what he did. He was born on a bloody farm.
father: Jordan, just stop blabbering and learn the meaning of the phrase to pull yourself up by your boot straps and you'll do just as well. Now good night.
father: Jordan, just stop blabbering and learn the meaning of the phrase to pull yourself up by your boot straps and you'll do just as well. Now good night.
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To plus one your own self to an event, usually resulting in social exile.
Derived from the saying: 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps,' as it involves paradoxically gaining entrance to a party through means possible only if oneself is already invited.
Derived from the saying: 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps,' as it involves paradoxically gaining entrance to a party through means possible only if oneself is already invited.
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a bootytrap is along the same lines being a butt that ensnares an individual past distraction.
a bootytrap is along the same lines being a butt that ensnares an individual past distraction.
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