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Dear teachers,
Would you be kind enough to give me your considered opinion concerning the interpretation of the expression in bold in the following sentences?
I’ll stick to you like old boots. (M. Braddon, "Sir Jasper Tenant")
They had walked twenty miles so that when we put the meal before them they ate like old boots.
like old boots = terrifically, fantastically
V.
Would you be kind enough to give me your considered opinion concerning the interpretation of the expression in bold in the following sentences?
I’ll stick to you like old boots. (M. Braddon, "Sir Jasper Tenant")
They had walked twenty miles so that when we put the meal before them they ate like old boots.
like old boots = terrifically, fantastically
V.