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#American_English_idioms
#Metaphors
In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input.
A pair of boots with one bootstrap visible Tall boots may have a tab, loop or handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a boot hook tool to help pulling the boots on.
The saying "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" was already in use during the 19th century as an example of an impossible task.
The idiom dates at least to 1834, when it appeared in the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of
his boots." In 1860 it appeared in a comment on philosophy of mind: "The attempt of the mind to analyze itself [is] an effort analogous to one who would lift himself by his own bootstraps." Bootstrap as a metaphor,
meaning to better oneself by one's own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922.
This metaphor spawned additional metaphors for a series of self-sustaining processes that proceed without external help.
Baron Munchausen pulls himself and his horse out of a swamp by his pigtail The term is sometimes attributed to a story in Rudolf Erich Raspe's The Surprising
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, but in that story Baron Munchausen pulls himself （and his horse） out of a swamp by his hair （specifically, his pigtail）,
not by his bootstraps – and no explicit reference to bootstraps has been found elsewhere in the various versions of the Munchausen tales.
In computer technology, the term bootstrapping refers to language compilers that are able to be coded in the same language.
（For example, a C compiler is now written in the C language. Once the basic compiler is written, improvements can be iteratively made, thus pulling the language up by its bootstraps）.
Also, booting usually refers to the ...