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To begin an enterprise or recover from a setback without any outside help; to succeed only on one's own effort or abilities.
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"We can't get a loan, so we'll just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps."
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Nearby phrases:
pull one's socks up,
pull one's weight,
pull oneself together,
pull out
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