| 词汇 | leave without a leg to stand on |
| 释义 | (redirected from leave without a leg to stand on)without a leg to stand onHaving no evidence, support, or justification for one's position, argument, or actions. Unfortunately the entire study was just retracted by the medical journal, and now my thesis is left without a leg to stand on. Without a leg to stand on following his opponent's thorough debunking of his claims, the candidate resorted to name-calling and empty rhetoric for the remainder of the debate. I know I'm without a leg to stand on here, given what I've done in the past, but it still upsets me what happened! without a leg to stand onWith no chance of success, as in He tried to get the town to change the street lights, but because there was no money in the budget he found himself without a leg to stand on . A related idiom is not have a leg to stand on, as in Once the detective exposed his false alibi, he didn't have a leg to stand on. This metaphoric idiom transfers lack of physical support to arguments or theories. [Late 1500s] leg to stand on, doesn't have a/not a/without aTo have no chance of success. This metaphor, which dates from the sixteenth century, applies the lack of physical support to an argument or hypothesis. The Elizabethan satirist Thomas Nashe (The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594) stated, “Faine he would have pacht out a polt-foot tale, but (God knows) it had not one true leg to stand on.” |
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