"as ever trod shoe-leather" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Treading shoe-leather refers to walking, in the sense of “walking on this earth”.",
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          "ref": "1767, Andrew Barton [pseudonym; Thomas Forrest or Francis Hopkinson?], The Disappointment, or, The Force of Credulity: A New American Comic-opera, of Two Acts, New York [i.e., Philadelphia, Penn.]: Printed [by John Dunlap?], →OCLC; The Disappointment, or, The Force of Credulity: A New American Comic-opera, in Three Acts, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Penn.: Printed for and sold by Francis Shallus […], 1796, →OCLC, page 34",
          "text": "As grate a rascal, as ever trod shoe-leather.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1809 February, E[nos] Bronson et al., “On the Marriage Manufactory at Gretna Green”, in Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: From the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson; published by Hopkins and Earle, […], →OCLC, page 118",
          "text": "As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!",
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          "ref": "1825, [John Neal], chapter XXVI, in Brother Jonathan: Or, The New Englanders: In Three Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 446",
          "text": "\"He is a brave Indian, sir.\" – \"Oh – is that all?\" – \"As brave a man, as ever trod shoe leather.\" – \"Hum!\" – \"Yes.\" – \"But Indians – do they tread shoe leather?\" – \"He's very brave, I mean – very.\" – \"Why not say so, then?\" – \"I do.\"",
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          "ref": "1830, [Theodore Edward Hook], chapter II, in Maxwell. … In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 54–55",
          "text": "[I]t's his temper as has saved his life; he's the best-temperdest cretur as ever trod shoe leather.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1855 October 6, [Elizabeth Gaskell], “Half a Life-time Ago”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, volume XII, number 289, London: [Household Words] Office (printed by Bradbury and Evans), →OCLC, page 236",
          "text": "I've ne'er heard his name named since I saw him go out of the yard as stout a man as ever trod shoe-leather.",
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          "ref": "c. 1855, Lyman Beecher, “The Revival”, in Charles Beecher, editor, Autobiography, Correspondence, etc., of Lyman Beecher, D.D., volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1865, →OCLC, page 72",
          "text": "It was as finely organized a Church as ever trod shoe-leather.",
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          "ref": "1865 September 23, “Mrs. Brown and the Emperor of the French”, in Fun, London: Published (for the proprietors) by Thomas Baker, →OCLC, page 17",
          "text": "I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young SIMMONS gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, tho' livin' at home with his mother, as steady a woman as ever trod shoe-leather, [...]",
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        "As ever existed or lived."
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        "(idiomatic, archaic) As ever existed or lived."
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        {
          "word": "shoe-leather"
        },
        {
          "word": "tread the boards"
        },
        {
          "word": "that ever walked on two legs"
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          "word": "as ever trod shoe leather"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
          "word": "mitä Maa on päällään kantanut"
        },
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
          "word": "akit valaha a hátán hordott a föld"
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          "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
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          "word": "koga je ikad majka rodila"
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          "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
          "word": "zey veri cildo"
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  "etymology_text": "Treading shoe-leather refers to walking, in the sense of “walking on this earth”.",
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      "word": "shoe-leather"
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      "word": "tread the boards"
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          "ref": "1767, Andrew Barton [pseudonym; Thomas Forrest or Francis Hopkinson?], The Disappointment, or, The Force of Credulity: A New American Comic-opera, of Two Acts, New York [i.e., Philadelphia, Penn.]: Printed [by John Dunlap?], →OCLC; The Disappointment, or, The Force of Credulity: A New American Comic-opera, in Three Acts, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Penn.: Printed for and sold by Francis Shallus […], 1796, →OCLC, page 34",
          "text": "As grate a rascal, as ever trod shoe-leather.",
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          "text": "As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!",
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          "text": "\"He is a brave Indian, sir.\" – \"Oh – is that all?\" – \"As brave a man, as ever trod shoe leather.\" – \"Hum!\" – \"Yes.\" – \"But Indians – do they tread shoe leather?\" – \"He's very brave, I mean – very.\" – \"Why not say so, then?\" – \"I do.\"",
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          "text": "[I]t's his temper as has saved his life; he's the best-temperdest cretur as ever trod shoe leather.",
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          "text": "I've ne'er heard his name named since I saw him go out of the yard as stout a man as ever trod shoe-leather.",
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          "text": "I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young SIMMONS gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, tho' livin' at home with his mother, as steady a woman as ever trod shoe-leather, [...]",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
      "word": "mitä Maa on päällään kantanut"
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      "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
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      "word": "koga je ikad majka rodila"
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      "sense": "as ever existed or lived",
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