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BOOTS

Traducere în limba română

boots s.

1. băiat de serviciu pe etaj (Ia un hotel).

2. (fam.) flăcău, tip, individ (numai în compuşi)

lazy boots leneş;

he was running like old boots alerga ca un smintit.

3. (mil. sl.) ofiţerul cel mai tânăr (al regimentului etc.).

4. (sl.) membrul cel mai tânăr (al unui club etc.).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I might, it is true, have reversed my boots, as I have done on similar occasions, but the sight of three sets of tracks in one direction would certainly have suggested a deception.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It must have been he who wore those boots and retained the missing gems.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this bag I have one of the boots which Straker wore, one of Fitzroy Simpson’s shoes, and a cast horseshoe of Silver Blaze.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oilskins and sea-boots were hanging from the walls, and here and there rifles and shotguns rested securely in the racks.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I took off my boots, and ventured out on the desperate way.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Among those who were stirring in the shops, I saw my ancient enemy the butcher, now advanced to top-boots and a baby, and in business for himself.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is unlikely that it is the bootmaker, since your boots are nearly new.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It boots not what he said.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

“He wore his running boots this evening, and you can see the nails. But what’s this? Some one else has been here.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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