seven-league boots
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of seven-league boots
1805–15; translation of French bottes de sept lieues in the fairy tales of C. Perrault, especially Le petit Poucet ( English Hop-o'-my-Thumb )
Example Sentences
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Then Salt came along with its seven-league boots and snapped up a little generation of us.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2013
Having played for England under-17s on Thursday, he came on for the second half to show strapping strength and balance in seven-league boots.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010
Manhattan paid its first-night court to Erich Kleiber, Berlin conductor who appeared in the U. S. for the first time last year, managed to wear the seven-league boots of Arturo Toscanini without disastrous stumbling.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the offer of such military cooperation as this to the suggestion of an overt declaration of war against the Axis was not a step for seven-league boots.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You can go twice as fast as we can on those seven-league boots of yours.”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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