leg

/leg/ noun

Definition

› [C] TRANSPORT one of the parts of a long journey: the first/final leg On the final leg of the flight we sat in economy class.

not have a leg to stand on › to not have any way of supporting your opinion or defending your position on something: The State Department doesn't have a leg to stand on if it's going to contradict its own analysis.

have legs informal › an idea or suggestion that has legs is considered to be something worth developing further: We're looking at the proposed legislation and we think it's got legs.

(Definition of leg noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)