one 's boots leaked dreadfully and in both of them there were big holes at the heels

one 's boots leaked dreadfully and in both of them there were big holes at the heels

It's an idiom, which means the shoe is broken and the heel is exposed. It's very poor. It's from Chuang Tzu rang Wang.

Source: Zhuangzi let the king: "catch the flap and elbow see, take shoes and heel decision." Shao Changheng's biography of the Eight Immortals: "the heel of the shoe is decisive, and the sleeve is carefree." example: so when you're grinding and sucking your pen and saying "~", your feet may have early menstruation. Lu Xun's Huagai collection after "hitting the wall"