shoeshine
Noun
Meaning
the act of shining shoes
a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing
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He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.
he charged a dollar for a shoeshine
his trousers had a sharp crease and you could see your reflection in his shoeshine
Poetry and cruelty of life were harmonically combined in the works that Vittorio De Sica wrote and directed together with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini : among them, Shoeshine (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948) and Miracle in Milan (1951).
The post-war years also saw him attempt to launch the comic-strip/comic-book series Baseball, John Law, Kewpies, and Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy; none succeeded, but some material was recycled into The Spirit.
Other children from still poorer families have become beggars, shoeshine boys, streets singers or prostitutes.