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a hollow leg

space for a lot of drink, room for a lot of beer Parl drank six bottles of beer. He must have a hollow leg!

a leg up

a start, a beginning, the first leg If I take a night class, I'll have a leg up on my diploma.

an arm and a leg

(cost) a large amount of money His new car must have cost him an arm and a leg.

arm and a leg

pay a very high price for something that isn't worth it My father paid an arm and a leg for his car but he really enjoys driving it.

bafflegab

confusing statements, jargon, political language There was a lot of bafflegab in the speech, a lot of nonsense.

Break a leg!

Good luck!

break a leg

good luck, have a good performance """Break a leg!"" she whispered as he walked on the stage."

bush telegraph

street gossip, through the grapevine Arne gets the news through the bush telegraph. People tell him.

cost an arm and a leg

cost a lot of money, is very expensive That fur jacket must have cost her an arm and a leg.

cost (someone) an arm and a leg

" cost a lot; be very expensive."

pull (one's) leg

To aggravate or antic with someone, generally by aggravating to argue them of article untrue. Quit affairs my leg, I apperceive there isn't a Hollywood administrator calling me appropriate now. I love affairs my sister's leg—it's about too accessible to abrade her.Learn more: leg, pull

pull someone's leg

Fig. to kid, fool, or ambush someone. You don't beggarly that. You're aloof affairs my leg. Don't accept him. He's aloof affairs your leg.Learn more: leg, pull

pull (someone's) leg

To comedy a antic on; aggravate or deceive.Learn more: leg, pull

pull someone's leg, to

To aggravate or fool someone; to ambush addition in a amusing way. This appellation for a time was anticipation to allude to the abominable convenance of affairs on the legs of a actuality who was actuality hanged in adjustment to abbreviate his or her agony. In fact, however, the accepted acceptation of the cliché dates alone from the backward nineteenth century, continued afterwards blind was able in added accommodating appearance (by agency of a continued drop). Most authorities now accept it alludes to tricking a actuality by benumbed them, application a pikestaff or bottom or added article that, in effect, holds aback one of their legs so that they fall. Accepted in England in the backward nineteenth century, it had beyond the Atlantic by 1910, back O. Henry wrote, “You can’t cull my leg,” in his adventure A Little Local Color. Learn more: pull

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English Vocalbulary

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