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
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
As already shown, this argument has not a leg to stand on.
From Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by Long, H. W. (Harland William)
You’d have not a leg to stand on and not a handle to your name.
From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell
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 Hankins, Arthur Preston
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