To Have No Leg to Stand On

To have no leg to stand on would be obviously that you don't have any legs and you can't stand up right. There is a speculation that the lack of support originally referred to furniture perhaps even to stools with various numbers of legs from four to none. Eventually it became a metaphor for losing positions in arguments debates and court cases to have no leg To stand on was first used late 16th century british english. It came off rolls off the tongue blog on tumblrLate 16th Century English Dictionary: The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford English Dictionary) : A list of words, phrases or idioms most commonly used by people who do not know how to pronounce them

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