pull/drag yourself up by your (own) bootstraps

pull/drag yourself up by your (own) ˈbootstraps(informal)to improve your situation yourself, without help from other people自力更生

• ahankara
• soberised
• electroresistive effect
• look after number one
• fish-odour syndrome
• maim
• distributively
• compensating balancer
• the East
• conceit
• bachelor-at-arms
• oceanically
• upskilling
• monocoques
• sedimentation diameter
• hypsographies
• clean something up
• batholith
• malignancies
• facedowns
• ping-pong diplomacy
• Cahgall Marc
• cystostomy
• exterritorial
• czarevna
• press agency
• goo
• as dull as ditchwater 或[美国英语] as dull as dishwater
• not have a stitch on
• in the worst way
• D J S
• check up on sb
• have out
• gather oneself together
• civil aviation
• microangiopathy
• see anchor
• the sounds
• squirrel monkey
• get moving
• M.M.
• mount one's pegasus
• petroleum naphtha
• defraudation
• rudderstocks
• have a wolf by the ears
• diminutions
• Icosteidae
• phonometrics
• Cleisthenes
• slide out of
• ACA
• bol.
• MSEE
• osties
• lazy guy
• by my troth
• resalute
• smirk
• LL.B.
• be/feel sorry for sb
• mechanical system
• short-term repeatability
• Bermuda grasses
• enwinding
• definitionally
• entertainment computer
• bioaccumulative
• death rays
• the icing （〈北美〉亦作frosting） on the cake
• darkens
• dress rehearsal
• object relationship
• permuting
• vinyl resins
• undervoltage relay
• black swallowwort
• do well for yourself
• start in on
• bacon hog
• lemon yellow
• Swisser
• censers
• curvi-
• palmate
• neocolonialization
• unisons
• bent-back occlusion
• appoint to
• Tembus
• proscenium
• birdlimed
• sunday bests
• airforce parka
• cut a caper
• bottleneck guitars
• somnambulistic
• clement
• grease the wheels
• mess about with