sly boots

“Your father came a-looking for you. Had permission, did you? You’re a sly boots, you are. He would have gone right after you if he wasn’t dragging that leg of his. And him sick with your going. You’ll be wanting to go home right quick, you will.”

Sly′boots, a sly or cunning person or animal.—advs.

They had shaved his head and put a striped suit of clothes on him and he didn’t look anything like their dear, kind father, thought Sly Boots and Bushy Tail, although they didn’t say so.

A sly boots of a playwright and a gifted dissembler, Mr. Schmidt has been known to subvert traditional theater forms.

The chap who finally does him in is Ralph Richardson, wearing his best pair of sly boots.