hang up your boots stop working; retire. informal
☞ Boots are seen in this expression as part of a person's working clothes. A common Canadian variant is hang up your skates.
1997Farmers Weekly The hard fact is that all farmers, whether the pension scheme is attractive or not, are, mostly, reluctant to hang their boots up.
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