shoe leather

noun

leather used to make shoes

save shoe leather to avoid wearing out shoes, as by taking a bus rather than walking

Words nearby shoe leather

shod, shoddy, shoe, shoe boil, shoe is on the other foot, the, shoe leather, shoebill, shoeblack, shoebox, shoebrush, shoehorn

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Examples from the Web for shoe leather

Malkin also likes to get out of her house and do shoe-leather reporting, albeit with ideological intent.
Michelle Malkin Has Feelings, Too|Lloyd Grove|September 22, 2009|DAILY BEAST
He did not see the look, which was a startled and sorrowful one; he was bending over his shoe-leather.
Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking|Susan Warner
She lives down the Mews here to the right—name of Horlick, and as honest a woman as ever stood in shoe-leather.
The Queen of Hearts|Wilkie Collins
It was a tempting morsel—more susceptible of mastication than shoe-leather.
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood|George MacDonald

Because he is an orphan; and because an orphan finds a brother in every man who is worth the shoe-leather he stands in.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long|Charles Reade
Mr. Howbridge is as fine a man as ever stepped in shoe-leather.
The Corner House Girls Snowbound|Grace Brooks Hill