I kicked that town's dust off my boots...

I'm not sure what your question is. If you are asking if the underlined part means "got rid of it", I would say it means "I left that town a long time ago.

The expression here is obviously more visual and shows that the character has an agressive side to his personality.

A very picturesque expression for an old western movie. I'm not so sure about the idea of aggressive personality, although "kick" does sound a bit active.

While I was teaching, if I had a bad day at school I would go home and "wash XX High School off my face", which usually started with a literal washing of my face (via the shower) and ended with a martini, and Mozart coming from the sp

okay, I could have avoided describing the expression as that belonging to an agressive character (in the literary sense), but it definately is "alpha dog" behavoir. I can almost see the cowboy with his thumbs in his belt and his hat at a jaunty angle, LOL.

Seriously, though, it is sometimes hard to comment on a a sentence because something that is used in films or literature is n

Thank you, Philip and Ronda!

This expression dates all the way back to the Bible. In Matthew 10:14, Jesus tells his disciples that if the people of a particular town will not believe what they have to say, they are to "shake off the dust of [their] feet" when they leave. It means to completely sever any connection they might have with the place; those people wouldn't listen, so, forget about them. Adams is just putting a litt