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Kamil47 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
What does "to show a little leg (on something)" mean?
I've just come across this idiom while reading http://tinyurl.com/6lycq8e. The broader context:
"Showing a little leg on deficit reduction is a highly risky proposition these days: the scantest hint of skin and you risk losing a limb."
Could anyone help me understand this term?
"Showing a little leg on deficit reduction is a highly risky proposition these days: the scantest hint of skin and you risk losing a limb."
Could anyone help me understand this term?
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Show some leg--literally, to expose your legs to view. Thus, to tempt sexually or to flirt or to seek attention. In the case of the given sentence, "showing a little leg" is to reveal your willingness to discuss the issue, make compromises.
- Show some leg--literally, to expose your legs to view.
- Thus, to tempt sexually or to flirt or to seek attention.
- In the case of the given sentence, "showing a little leg" is to reveal your willingness to discuss the issue, make compromises.
- Does this help?
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Show some leg--literally, to expose your legs to view. Thus, to tempt sexually or to flirt or to seek attention. In the case of the given sentence, "showing a little leg" is to reveal your willingness to discuss the issue, make compromises.
Does this help?
Does this help?
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I suspect it means that you show something which isn't supposed to show, something supposed to be behind the veil or sealed under some cover. coming from a dress which suppoed to cover the whole legs but showing a little bit of leg.
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