To fill your boots means “to go after something with gusto.” Similarly, the tableside injunction Fill your boots! is an invitation to chow down. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “”Fill Your Boots””
I saw a lovely remembrance of somebody on Facebook the other day, and the person who was memorializing her friend who died said that what that person would have wanted is for everybody to say with gusto, fill your boots.
Fill your boots?
Yeah, have you ever heard that phrase?
No.
I never heard it.
I had to go look it up.
To gear up and get ready to do what needs to be done?
Well, it’s more like go after things with gusto.
Dig in and fill your boots means to eat as much as you like.
Like fill up not just your belly, but your boots too.
I see.
But it’s an expression that it looks like you hear more in Canada and the UK.
Fill your boots.
Eat life in large bites.
Yeah, yeah.
Embrace it with gusto.
Nice.
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