raise oneself up by the bootstraps

raise oneself up by the bootstraps

• 依靠自己的努力而取得成功(或出人头地或提高自己的地位或改善自己的境况)

• mill stream
• shut someone/thing in
• lie ahead
• condensation resin
• enter ... for
• Huron
• archeologist
• striplights
• bark borer
• plotinuss
• lox
• Bradbury, Malcolm (Stanley)
• tolazolines
• axometer
• conductive coating
• open someone's eyes to
• go wild
• bait-and-switches
• Zwicky, Fritz
• Ag.E.
• pay envelopes
• cycloparaffin
• calcifuges
• gemmuliferous
• power seat
• transverse graticule
• squalled
• decoy duck
• napper
• combination square
• kindred spirit
• sextonships
• through with
• tormentors
• bladder press
• sink tooth
• Thomas,Dylan, Marlais
• on/upon the pretext of
• gallerias
• black sth↔out
• peach melba
• ScotsIrish
• epistolography
• theropod
• ecstasizes
• parallax error
• workpiece
• Oldowan culture
• bin-liner
• brace oneself (up)
• inappreciably
• Novocastrians
• bourgeoisifications
• water gauge
• finish up
• friarbird
• wingover
• coincident indicator
• be gathered to one’s fathers
• Danish pastry
• peanut
• 'dobe
• ovations
• riotings
• Shawwal
• runaway effect
• hurl to the winds
• gentleman
• wedding band
• county palatine
• double-reef
• Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jone's locker
• irrefrangibility
• ash soil
• smite with the tongue
• capillary column
• epeeists
• wag (或shake)the feather
• fracture surface energy
• holeproof
• command paper
• toxicologies
• scrub round
• genealogists
• geologize
• in running order
• McLuhanesque
• beat the devil's tattoo
• UI
• radicchios
• power bandwidth
• insufficiently
• α-naphthalene sulfonic acid
• Gandhiist
• carbon-copying
• glass-hard
• de gressive
• phytophagy
• colorists
• animal park