“aleg”

The following 9 entries include the term aleg.

a leg to stand on

phrase

arm and a leg

noun

: an exorbitant price

break a leg

phrase

used to wish good luck especially to a performer

shake a leg

phrase

: dance

an arm and a leg

noun

: a very large amount of money

cost an arm and a leg

idiom

: to be too expensive

give someone a leg up

idiom

: to hold one's hands together so that someone can step into them while climbing up onto something

have a leg up

idiom

: to have an advantage over others

not have a leg to stand on

idiom

: to have no support for what one thinks, says, or does


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