sly boots
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The chap who finally does him in is Ralph Richardson, wearing his best pair of sly boots.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Rog, let's see your drawings a minute, you old sly boots, you!" said Ernest.
From The Forbidden Trail by Morrow, Honoré
The French have a capital name for the fox, namely, M. L'Escobar, which may be translated the "shuffler," or more freely, "sly boots."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
