How to pronounce “shoe-leather”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable and uncountable) Leather that is used to make shoes.
• (uncountable) Leather from which shoes are made that is worn out through walking.
• (by extension, idiomatic) The sweat of one's brow; effort; investigatory effort.
• (slang, figurative, somewhat derogatory) Tough meat, especially cheap meat.
• [Adjective]
• (idiomatic) Basic, old-fashioned or traditional; specifically (journalism) shoe-leather journalism or shoe-leather reporting: journalism involving walking from place to place observing things and speaking to people, rather than sitting indoors at a desk.

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