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 Charles Dickens
You've not a leg to stand on; so every time you turn a wheel on this property it's goin' to cost you just what the last trip through the pass cost Jerkline Jo.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins
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 John Lyde Wilson
You will realize that legally we have not a leg to stand on.
From The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams
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