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
When he spoke of pile-driving and sluice-making, he left me not a leg to stand on, and I can never sufficiently acknowledge his forbearance with me in my disabled state.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
You have not a leg to stand on.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
He saw plainly enough that he had not a leg to stand on, as Hervey was plainly innocent.
From The Green Mummy by Hume, Fergus
It consisted in finding an opinion that had not a leg to stand on, and then giving it two legs to stand on.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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