like old boots

English

Prepositional phrase

like old boots

1. (UK, slang, archaic) Synonym of like anything (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”)
   • 1905, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 639:

     Well, I worked like old boots; and all through the beastly long term I went on steadily creeping ahead of those two.

Related terms

• tough as old boots

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary