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shoe leather

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shoe leather
n
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Tanning) leather used to make shoes
save shoe leather to avoid wearing out shoes, as by taking a bus rather than walking
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Noun1.shoe leather - leather used to make shoesshoe leather - leather used to make shoes          
leather - an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
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Lemme see--how long's it been since I saved shoe leather by keeping one foot on the foot-rest?
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Without friends, money, recommendation, or knowledge of business of any kind, let him find honest employment in London, which will keep him in shoe leather, and I'll give him a thousand pounds.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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