Some followers disagreed with entering the world of commerce but the shops were successful, selling everything from soap to suspenders, bacon to bootlaces.
If we are not to be depopulated and impoverished there is only one cure for our ills; it is to pull ourselves up by our own bootlaces.
One might facetiously describe bricklayers working on chimney stacks as working on their bootlaces rather than wait for a scaffolder to come along and put up the scaffolding.
It is like offering a man a pair of bootlaces in the winter time, with the prospect of getting a pair of boots in the spring.
It is our responsibility to pull ourselves up by our own bootlaces.
That country had to pull itself up by the bootlaces and start from scratch.
The poor should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootlaces.
This man, who left school at the age of 14 with a very sketchy education, pulled himself up by his own bootlaces.
