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tweakimp • today at 6:56 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Until now I thought it was boots-trapped. I am not a native speaker :)

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crabmusket • today at 8:20 AM

The idiom is to "pull oneself up by one's boot straps":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Etymology

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