shoe leather
Britishnoun
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leather used to make shoes
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to avoid wearing out shoes, as by taking a bus rather than walking
Example Sentences
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“Despite the kind of complacency that some people might feel, we still got work to do. We’ve got to keep burning that shoe leather until we get everybody out of jails and prisons.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
After weeks of calls, emails and shoe leather, the supercomputer is becoming a legend too.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023
Like many activists worldwide, Ms. Timchenko and her colleagues at Meduza are growing ever more adept at combining new technology and old-fashioned shoe leather to report on their country without censorship.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
But the research wasn’t all libraries and journalistic shoe leather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
The rest, with faces contorted from the strain of trying to listen, saw distant men gesturing wildly into the sound-killing miasma of whispers, coughs and creaking shoe leather.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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