not a leg to stand on
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She worries that her writing has "not a leg to stand on" because it's born from "affective experience" and not argument.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2018
It was the sunniest possible tone of grumbling; it enlisted your sympathy by its very acknowledgement that it had not a leg to stand on.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
What with the squabbles and disputes concerning title between Indian and settler, English and French, Boone like others soon found himself with not a leg to stand on.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
It was a good tight argument, without a leak in it anywhere; and it left Prissy's half-doubts not a leg to stand on.
From The Prince and the Pauper, Part 6. by Twain, Mark
The argument of idleness has not a leg to stand on, and falls at once to the ground.—But the Still makes men dishonest.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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