as ever trod shoe-leather

Etymology
Treading shoe-leather refers to walking, in the sense of “walking on this earth”.

Phrase

 * 1)  As ever existed or lived.

Translations

 * Finnish: mitä Maa on päällään kantanut
 * Hungarian: akit valaha a hátán hordott a föld
 * Serbo-Croatian: koga je ikad majka rodila
 * Zazaki: zey veri cildo