"It's exactly the kind of shoe-leather work that our campaign has been known for," Smith said.

I wear expensive suits and my shoe-leather is the best.

Such articles, involving shoe-leather reporting at its best, are not easy to get.

Your next six months' pocket-money's going to be needed to pay for police shoe-leather.

We're also, of course, thinking about old-fashioned shoe-leather diplomacy in a new way.

And others say that Marshall's shoe-leather methods could soon become obsolete.

I was pleased about mat; it would save me a bit of shoe-leather.

Now there's a lot of shoe-leather stuff you don't need to do."

And he cooked calves’ liver rare at a time when everyone else in the family thought it had to come out shoe-leather well done.

The shoe-leather cost is now used more generally to describe all the costs associated with having to hold small amounts of cash.

He has had an edge for months after putting $6 million into ads and spending a year engaging in shoe-leather politics.

A shoe-leather cost is one of the impacts of inflation.

They are leaving the old-fashioned shoe-leather and reaching out efforts to their union backers.

The party primaries are Dec. 8, leaving little time for traditional shoe-leather campaigning.

But he said it wasn't simply lobbying and shoe-leather efforts that have helped China's image in Congress.

For one thing the detectives of the fictional 12th Precinct were authentic shoe-leather types.

But you still need old-school shoe-leather campaigning to take it from there."

"Firsthand knowledge or shoe-leather reporting is not a prerequisite in the talk world" (10).

I worked Spain and other regions through agents to save time and shoe-leather.

That shoe-leather detective work is how the United States has tracked down so many terrorists.

In the absence of new forensic clues, the investigation has fallen back on traditional shoe-leather methods.

Bond watched the shoe-leather strain as Nash stood up.

There was a soft slur of shoe-leather inching along the floor from somewhere under the table.

We used to call this shoe-leather reporting.

He insists he can win the old-fashioned way, through shoe-leather politicking.