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allowing one to use fingers or a boot hook tool to help pull the boots on. The saying "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" was already in use during the...

short for bootstrap or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. The usage calls attention to the requirement that...

cause themselves, or "bootstrapping", which derives from the idiom "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps." Consistency paradoxes, on the other hand, are...

metaphysical free will; Nietzsche calls this belief an attempt "to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the swamps of nothingness". Another...

native religion Bön). booting or bootstrapping – from the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", originally used as a metaphor for any self-initiating...

particles called quarks and gluons. Bootstrapping here refers to 'pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps,' as particles were surmised to be held together...

precisely this causa sui, and, with more than Munchausen daring, to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out of the slough of nothingness. Finally...

"I'm alright Jack; pull up the ladder." The latter half of the phrase, typically used as "pulling up the ladder behind oneself", has been used to call...

liberal free market or laissez-faire capitalism. Phrases such as "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps" and having the "frontier mentality" promote the...

suggests that this is doctrinally problematic as it is emblematic of 'pulling oneself up by the bootstraps'. Judges have accepted that the principle of party...

Oneself". Diacritics. 31 (4): 22–40. doi:10.1353/dia.2004.0002. JSTOR 1566427. S2CID 143558617. Butler, Judith (2005). Giving an account of oneself (1st ed...

buttocks. The practice may arise from a desire or compulsion to expose oneself in such a manner to groups of friends or acquaintances, or to strangers...

Chiswick. His parents were Conservatives "who believed in character and pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps". Field was educated at St Clement Danes Grammar...

placed on the floor away from any objects that could otherwise be used to pull oneself to a standing position. It is also used in testing paraplegia.[citation...

people of color learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of teachers...

law, self-incrimination is the act of making a statement that exposes oneself to an accusation of criminal liability or prosecution. Self-incrimination...

counting (arithmo- (Greek) meaning number) Ablutomania - Mania for washing oneself Agromania - Intense desire to be in open spaces Anthomania - Obsession...

ball crusher is often combined with bondage, either with a partner or by oneself, or with other types of torture or impact play. A parachute is a small...

lacks the power to enter into an agreement, it has been likened to pulling oneself up by the bootstraps as the party cannot warrant that it has the power...

into one's [own] mouth" as one of three ways to commit "relations with oneself." Artemidorus thought that dreams of this "unnatural" act portended the...