to your bootstraps
to (one's) bootstraps
Through and through; thoroughly; in every manner or respect. The fellow is stubborn to his bootstraps; he won't even listen to my plan the whole way through! Though he grew up in America, Henry is still a Brit to his bootstraps.
See also: bootstrap
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
to your bootstraps
AUSTRALIANIf someone has a particular characteristic to their bootstraps, that characteristic is very strong in them. Note: Bootstraps are straps attached to a boot which you use for pulling it on. The novel's hero is honourable to his bootstraps. Sir Robert Menzies was British to the bootstraps.
See also: bootstrap
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- to (one's) bootstraps
- to the backbone
- to the marrow
- dismiss (someone or something) out of hand
- eight ways from Sunday
- eight ways to Sunday
- forty ways from Sunday
- forty ways to Sunday
- take the bit between (one's) teeth
- take the bit between the teeth, to