✨ #IDIOMFACTS ✨ Did you know that “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” originally meant doing something impossible? The phrase began life as an adynaton — a type of figure of speech for an absurd or impossible task (like “when pigs fly”). After all, you can’t literally lift yourself off the ground by tugging on your own boots! Over time, though, the idiom flipped its meaning. Instead of mocking impossibility, it became a metaphor for achieving success through one’s own effort — especially in American English. So next time you hear someone tell you to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” and you can’t it’s because you’re being asked to do something impossible! For Reading Addicts
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