靴子落地
Dictionary entry
(lit.) the boot hits the floor (idiom)
What does 靴子落地 mean?
靴子落地 (xuē zi luò dì) has the following dictionary meaning.
1(lit.) the boot hits the floor (idiom)
2(fig.) a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
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