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
A good many lawyers, I believe, said that the police had not a leg to stand on, and I know the case was watched with much interest by the legal profession.
From The Case of Jennie Brice by Bracker, M. Leone
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
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’d have not a leg to stand on and not a handle to your name.
From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell
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