not a leg to stand on

Idioms  

1. see without a leg to stand on.

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Example Sentences

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

Salon's Daniel D'Addario that part of the problem is that Ms Keller shared private messages she had received from Ms Adams: "This is a breach of ethics of a high order in addition to just being evidence that Ms. Keller has not a leg to stand on in her vague insinuation that Adams is giving 'TMI' by blogging about cancer - if her case were sturdy, would she need to bolster it by leaking private correspondence?"

From BBC

You’d have not a leg to stand on and not a handle to your name.

From Project Gutenberg

When the explanation came, that the thing which killed the miner was what he breathed, not what he saw; and when chemistry took the fire-damp from the domain of faerie, the basilisk and the fire fiend had not a leg to stand on.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg