Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Boots at an Inn

A servant whose duty it is to clean the boots. The Boots of the Holly-tree Inn, a Christmas tale by Charles Dickens (1855).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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