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bootlace noun ▶ not be someone’s bootlace to not come close to equalling another’s achievements AUSTRALIA- [T]he instructor at the barracks said I’d never be a policeman’s bootlace. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 83, 1959
- — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 82, 1971
- Why in the hell should I listen to a mug like you? You weren’t a jockey’s bootlace! — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 23, 1982
- — William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 87, 2001
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