Bootstraps

Doflamingo would not be deterred; he pulled himself up by the bootstraps to become a feared warlord and Devil Fruit smuggler.

But in the United States, where the ethos of grinding and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is ubiquitous, getting enough sleep can seem like a dream.

It’s a fine enough answer, and certainly the kind of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” message you’d expect to hear from a U.S. Marine veteran who’s had to do that herself throughout her life.

These books are designed to codify the myth of the self-sufficient pioneers, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and living off the fat of the land.

Here was a potent vote-getting counter to the governing party’s welfarism — a black, socially conservative, unabashed capitalist who had pulled himself up by his own bootstraps.

That, or we just need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and abstain from avocados.

This sordid story just disgusts me to my bootstraps – fuck America and the fawning UK, Swedish, Ecuadorian and Aus governments….

After volunteering in post-Katrina New Orleans, however, Zaidi began to suspect that “there were no bootstraps”.

What kids our age need to do is pull themselves up by their bootstraps, square their shoulders, and ask their parents to pay rent for them.

As self-levitating by pulling on one's bootstraps is physically impossible, this is often used by the bootstrappers themselves to deny the possibility that the bootstrap campaign is indeed concocted and artificial.

It is in this sense that the computer "pulls itself up by its bootstraps", i.e. it improves itself by its own efforts.

Menzies hosting a royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II Elsewhere, Menzies publicly professed continued admiration for links with Britain, exemplified by his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II, and famously described himself as "British to the bootstraps".

Reception Philosopher David Lewis considers " '—All You Zombies—' " and " By His Bootstraps " to be examples of "perfectly consistent" time travel stories.

The saying "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" was already in use during the 19th century as an example of an impossible task.