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
You have not a leg to stand on.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
Why, man, he disputed with the most learned among their Dutch scholars openly in the big church, and left them not a leg to stand on, or a tongue to wag.
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
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 H. W. (Harland William) Long
He conceived himself to be very strong, and thought that his objections were so well founded that no one would deny their truth and that his daughter had not a leg to stand on.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
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