Is this a roundabout way of saying that they wish to hire folks on a short term basis, make them work really hard, pay pennies on the dollar and then fire them?
Is this a roundabout way of saying that they wish to hire folks on a short term basis, make them work really hard, pay pennies on the dollar and then fire them?
So, a lot of times archaic terms get preserved in an idiom. A good example of this is “moot point” or “bated breath”. Most people understand what those phrases mean, but they probably don’t know what a “moot” is or what “bated” means. This is not that, though.
A bootstrap is the strap at the back of a boot that you use to help pull the boot onto your foot. Every pair of boots I’ve ever owned has had them.