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
But the research wasn’t all libraries and journalistic shoe leather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
That data was the starting point for some good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by The Associated Press, which traced down the companies responsible using public records.
From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2022
Not that Brown hasn’t scuffed her own shoe leather.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Dutchy and I are standing together talking quietly when a man approaches with skin as tanned and scuffed as old shoe leather, trailed by a sour-looking woman.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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