Filling shoes and/or boots
Emptying a boot is a different matter entirely.
Archive for Idioms
same shoe
Malaphors
as who should say
on the back foot
The idiom is from cricket, but I would think it would also apply to soccer/football and baseball, and maybe hockey?
Opinions
in the tank
The word 'tank' has a surprising variety of slang meanings, actually.
One is not like Single
Give these idioms a big hand!
Boots up!
The OED didn't help, although I was surprised to learn that 'booty' (as in pirate) was probably not derived from 'boot' meaning profit (as in the phrase 'to boot'), at least not directly.
Turn that smile upside-down
I don't know if the difference between the British and American frowns comes in to play, here, but I suppose it might.