[Idiom] Shoot my boot

[Rover_KE]

At this point, let's ask punkt (the OP) whether any of these suggestions hit the spot in the context he was particularly stingy with.

Rover

 

[punkt]

I think there are two possible meaning:
1 In Britain English 'Shoot the boot', means drink the beer with boot, usually after the ball game. Maybe 'shoot my boot' means the same.
2 Maybe he just feel bad luck, like someone shoot his own foot.
I don't know which one is correct, but thank you all.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think there are two possible meaning:
1 In Britain English 'Shoot the boot', means drink the beer with boot, usually after the ball game. Maybe 'shoot my boot' means the same.
2 Maybe he just feel bad luck, like someone shoot his own foot.
I don't know which one is correct, but thank you all.

Fearing I had missed something, I just went back over the 3 pages of this thread to find the point at which someone told you that in BrE, "shoot the boot" is the phrase for drinking beer from a football boot after a game of soccer (which we don't call "a ball game, by the way). However, I can't find any mention of it. Since starting this thread, has someone else told you that usage? I am a BrE speaker and, while I can't claim to be a huge soccer fan, I have never heard this phrase in my life.

 

[Amigos4]

Fearing I had missed something, I just went back over the 3 pages of this thread to find the point at which someone told you that in BrE, "shoot the boot" is the phrase for drinking beer from a football boot after a game of soccer (which we don't call "a ball game, by the way). However, I can't find any mention of it. Since starting this thread, has someone else told you that usage? I am a BrE speaker and, while I can't claim to be a huge soccer fan, I have never heard this phrase in my life.

Hey, 2d2, take a look at the Urban Dictionary: Urban Dictionary: shoot the boot
A Rugby term referring to drinking beer out of a rugby boot (a.k.a. cleats) when a player scores a try for the first time in their career. The boot is filled with anything and everything available including but not limited to beer, food, and earth-worms
Doug yacked after he had to shoot the boot that was filled with grease, beans, rice, beer and hot sauce.

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Oh, how I so miss not being British during my adolescence!!!!! :lol: Cheers,
A4

 

[Tdol]

I'm glad to say that I never scored a try. :crazyeye:

 

[emsr2d2]

Ah, rugby, not football. I can claim even less knowledge of that!

 

[Amigos4]

I'm glad to say that I never scored a try. :crazyeye:

Ah, but did you ever try to score? ;-)

 

[Tdol]

I was sent off for wearing gloves on the grounds that I couldn't catch the ball. The fact that I didn't want to catch it and that being sent off were great things seemed to pass them by.

 

[Rover_KE]

They made me play rugby, too—a scrawny, asthmatic youth of 13. I spent the whole match avoiding being passed to; I could see what happened to boys unfortunate enough to get the ball.

Rover

 

[Rover_KE]

They made me play rugby, too—a scrawny, asthmatic youth of 13. I spent the whole match avoiding being passed to; I could see what happened to boys unfortunate enough to get the ball.

Rover

 

[JMurray]

I played rugby for several years and although I never had to shoot-a-boot, I was obliged once or twice to chug-a-lug.

 

[charliedeut]

A4

Amigos, I never thought I would have to remind you that one should not post ads :shock: ;-)

charliedeut

 

[Amigos4]

Amigos, I never thought I would have to remind you that one should not post ads :shock: ;-)

charliedeut

Thanks, Deut! I did not know that A4 was a sport's apparel company! I guess I don't get out to the shopping malls as often as I should!