He did not make much of an entrance, he just made his way over to the edge of the lake and plopped his boots on the ground.

US options grow more difficults as the chance of a Soviet response increases. However, many American strategists now argue that even light, token US land forces -- "getting US combat boots on the ground," as General Warner puts it -- would signal to an enemy that the US is physically guarding the area and can only be dislodged at the risk of war.

The Pentagon may say we have enough, but that's not what I'm hearing from the boots on the ground.

Eyes on the page matter, but nothing goes forward without boots on the ground. In my case, students wore the boots that mattered most. Jennifer Greer, a former student who worked for a records management consulting service, agreed to help me with the research and writing.

And while the number of international boots on the ground might have appeared to be large, spread across the vast and difficult territory of Darfur, those 20,000 troops and police looked much less adequate.

We need boots on the ground to make the border a real barrier. Ten thousand new Border Patrol agents have been authorized by Congress.

Boots on the ground

Meaning

Noun