a leg up
*a leg up
Fig. a kind of help where someone provides a knee or crossed hand as a support for someone to place a foot on to get higher, as in mounting a horse or climbing over something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.)
I gave her a leg up, and soon she was on her horse.
Can I give you a leg up?
Could I please have a leg up?
热门单词
- admire to do sth
- advise against sth
- a household word
- ail
- a kick in the ass
- a leave of absence
- a level playing field
- allot sth to so or sth
- all the more reason for doing sth
- All things will pass.
- ally oneself to so or sth
- a load off one's mind
- a lost cause
- alternate with sth
- a milestone in so's life
- amok
- anchor
- angle
- (another) nail in so's or sth's coffin
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
- anything
