leg up

So Eugene already had a leg up—an interlocutor could explain away any failed communication.

Now two recent studies show that cars offer more than just convenience: they can give lower income Americans an economic leg up.

Some kids are getting a leg up in the charter system and testing regime, but all the other kids are being written off.

With music sales dwindling, many groups try to get a leg up by lending their songs to sell products.

The great thing about playing Daenerys is that she does use her femininity to get a leg up on the strong men that are around her.

In a trice he had thrown his leg up over the tree, his practice in the gymnasium making this an easy feat.

He put his leg up on a bench and an old gentleman seen sump'n stickin' out.

Dragging his bad leg up the hill pastures after the cow, day in and day out, he had evolved a sort of patient philosophy about it.

Then I bound my leg up as well as I could, and crawled on all fours with the poniard in my hand toward the city gate.

It is two whole miles; and we can't lay my leg up in the gig: besides its being so cold.