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TIL “to pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps” is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman’s Advocate: “It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.
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