shoe leather
Boot's outer skin
Shoe leather is the material from which shoes are made, or shoes themselves considered as a resource expended through walking.
Reporters and detectives do shoe-leather work when they pound the pavement gathering information in person rather than from behind a desk.
To burn shoe leather or wear out shoe leather is to walk extensively in pursuit of something.
- soleFoot's bottom surface
- ballet flatsLow-cut heelless slip-ons
- cordwainerCrafter of new footwear
- legworkPractical preliminary investigation
- hit the streetsBegin active pursuit outside
shine · crack · break in · patina · pounding · grain · persistence · cowhide · footwear · reshoe · investigative journalism · cobbling · durability · dogged · tanning · scuffed · tongue · worn
- canvassingcanvassers, knock, door knocking, door-to-door, canvass
- leatherworktanning, carving, tanner, saddler, beveling
shoe leathercanvas
Heavy woven cloth
rubber · plastic · vegan leather · vinyl · fabric
shoe leathereffortlessness
Quality of seeming unstrained
laziness · inaction · sitting still · couch potato · sedentary
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