Not have a leg to stand on

Definition

leg / leg / n ၁။ [C] ေျခေထာက္။ have long / short/ skinny / sturdy / bandy / shapely legs ❍ a horse’s hind legs ❍ the powerful back legs of a frog ❍ the long thin legs of a spider ❍ develop one’s leg muscles ❍ He’s broken his leg. See also-LEGGED, LEGGY ၂။ [C, U] စားဖြယ္ (ၾကက္၊ ဝက္ စသည္) ေျခေထာက္။ chicken legs ❍ roast leg of lamb. ၃။ [C] ေဘာင္းဘီ ေျခ(ေထာက္)။ a tear in the eft trouser leg. See also LEGGINGS ၄။ [C] စားပြဲ၊ ကုလားထိုင္ ေျခေထာက္။ a chair with a broken leg. ၅။ [C] (က) ခရီးတစ္ေထာက္။ The last leg of our trip was the most tiring. (ခ) ( sport ) ၿပိဳင္ပြဲစဥ္၌ ပြဲတစ္ပြဲ။ အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္ တြင္ တာတစ္ေထာက္။ the second leg of their second-round match against Juventus. ၆။ [U] ခရစ္ကက္႐ိုက္လွည့္ က်သူ၏ တိုင္တန္းႏွင့္ အနီးဆံုး ေျခေထာက္။ See also SEA LEGS v ( -gg- ) ❏ be all legs [ IDM ] ( derog ) ေျခတံရွည္ပိန္တာ႐ိုး။ ❏ give sb a leg up [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ပံ့ပိုးေပးသည္။ Football clubs have been given a leg up by the achievements of the national side. ❏ leg it [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေျပးသြားသည္။ ဒုန္းစိုင္းသည္။ leg it to the nearest telephone. ❏ leg-room n [U] ေျခဆန္႔ရာေနရာ။ There’s not much leg-room in an aeroplane. ❏ not have a leg to stand on [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေထာက္ တည္ရာ မရိွျခင္း။

Examples

1. He’s trying to balance on one leg.
2. She sat down and crossed her legs.
3. An exercise to strengthen the leg muscles
4. The horse kicked its hind legs.
5. Insects have six legs.
6. There was a dirty mark on his trouser leg.
7. Roast leg of lamb
8. A stool with three legs
9. A table leg
10. The second leg of our journey across the US
11. The final leg of the band’s 30-month World Tour
12. The third leg of a round-the-world yacht race
13. Let's see if this analogy has legs. The big question for us is whether this project has legs.