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Grizzled wisdom becomes more attractive than tenderfooted exuberance.
In Recession, Money Honeys Get Company From Grumpy Old Dudes 2009
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Grizzled wisdom becomes more attractive than tenderfooted exuberance.
In Recession, Money Honeys Get Company From Grumpy Old Dudes 2009
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Jun 21st, 2002 at 5: 47 pm it ` a only these tenderfooted easterners who think it ` s funny.
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The black dog stayed twenty yards back, picking its way across frozen grass in that tenderfooted way that some dogs have outdoors.
A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002
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HATCH: He's very tenderfooted too, I can tell you that.
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SYMPTOMS: Lameness, or as the old saying goes, "The animal will go tenderfooted."
The Veterinarian Charles James Korinek
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The procession then broke up with a wild charge of cowboys, accompanied with such yells as would strike terror to the heart of the tenderfooted.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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I'm a cowman and a prospector, but I'm sure tenderfooted on water, an 'they don't know punkins.
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She had even time to think of young Donald turned tenderfooted into the mountains, to wonder whether he would be able to find his way back or get lost in the ranges.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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The weather was fine, the roads were good, and we traveled well till our cattle began to get tenderfooted, when we had to go slow.
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