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Treading shoe-leather refers to walking, in the sense of “walking on this earth”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
as ever trod shoe-leather
as ever trod shoe-lea·therToday it means: As ever existed or lived. Full definition →
Today it means: As ever existed or lived. Full definition →
Treading shoe-leather refers to walking, in the sense of “walking on this earth”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.