Without advantage or benefit
bootless \BOOT-lis\ (adjective) - Unavailing; useless; without advantage or benefit.
"I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide."
-- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III
Bootless is from Old English bot, "advantage, profit" + -less, from Old English from leas, "without."
"I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide."
-- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III
Bootless is from Old English bot, "advantage, profit" + -less, from Old English from leas, "without."
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