You gave me a boot
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- You gave me a boot: in Ulysses Stephen Dedalus wears boots he borrowed from Buck Mulligan
- You gave me the boot: you got rid of (fired) me
- You gave me a boot: (T.S. Eliot was the bearer of an embarrassing parcel of old shoes from Pound to Joyce, as related in Ellmann: James Joyce, 493) → Waste in line above
- → smoothpick waste papish pastures, + foottreats (p. 141)
- → waste + overpast boots (p. 151)