Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • SonOfSuns@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!” Apparently, the quote originates from like a late 1800s textbook or something, and it was a logic problem: “Why cannot a man pull himself up by his own bootstraps?” It’s not possible, 'cause physics.