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 A Pair of Shoes

Vincent van Gogh

Försöker (utan någon vidare framgång) rensa i datorn för att den inte ska spricka. Hittar en notering — utan källanvisning:

”The shoestring was invented in England in 1790. Prior to this time, all shoes were fastened with buckles.”

 Enligt SAOB tycks detta snöre ha tagit hundra år på sig för att nå Sverige:

SKOSNÖRE. smalt, jämnbrett band (av textilt material) varmed sko hopsnöres o. fasthålles vid foten; (1893).

Men säker jag på shoestring, vet Merriam-Webster att berätta att:

The first known use of shoelace was circa 1647 

och

The first known use of shoestring was in 1616

Någon av uppgiftslämnarna tycks ha fått något om bakfoten.

Did you know?
In earlier times, wandering peddlers offered townspeople a variety of items and trinkets, such as fabrics, embroidery materials, and even patent medicines. Another popular offering from these traveling salespeople was shoelaces. The fact that such vendors neither earned much money nor charged very much for their wares led to the connection of their literal shoestrings with a metaphorical application of "shoestring" to a very small amount of money. It's still not uncommon to hear of a business being operated on a shoestring (even if these days it's less likely that actual shoelaces are involved), but it's also possible to speak of "traveling on a shoestring" and even "gardening on a shoestring."