Phrase Hound found 109 phrases and 43 compound words that contain legs. The most common are listed below. Open legs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 109
- Hot Legs
- hind legsplural of hind leg: Either of the two legs towards the rear of a multilegged animal.
- long legsinfluence, far-reaching power
- sea legsThe ability, when walking aboard a ship, to anticipate the motion of the deck so as to walk steadily without losing balance.
- restless legsAlternative form of restless legs syndrome: A neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move one's body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensations, usually in the legs.
- frog legsThe hind legs of a frog used as food.
- heavy legsAn alleged medical condition, described as an unpleasant sensation of pain and heaviness in the lower limbs.
- arms and legsplural of an arm and a leg: Usually used after the verb cost, but also often charge, pay, and spend: a very high price for an item or service; an exorbitant price
- shear legsA form of derrick, consisting of three poles and a block and tackle, used to hoist and lower heavy weights, especially the masts of sailing ships.
- on one's last legsAbout to die.
- land legsA sense of balance, slowly regained after a time at sea.
- red-legsplural of red-leg: The red-legged partridge.
- chicken legsplural of chicken leg: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, leg. The leg of a chicken.
- a lie has no legsOne cannot get away with a lie; the truth will always come out.
- wooden legsplural of wooden leg: A stick used as a substitute for somebody who has lost a leg.
- fresh legsA substitute who has yet to play in the match, and therefore has more energy than those already on the field.
- new legsEnergy or momentum for continuing provided by a change.
- tail between one's legsDefeated; in a cowardly or miserable manner.
- daddy long-legs spiderAny of the true spiders of the family Pholcidae: small spiders with long legs.
- bow legsplural of bow leg: A leg that curves outward at the knee.
- restless legs syndromeA neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move one's body to stop uncomfortable or odd sensations, usually in the legs.
- daddy-long-legsAlternative form of daddy longlegs: The cranefly; any insect of the suborder Tipulomorpha.
- legs elevenA traditional call for the number eleven usually during the game Bingo.
- stretch one's legsTo walk about, especially after prolonged time sitting or lying down.
- cross one's legsTo place one leg over the other, especially while sitting down.
Compound words 43
- platelegsPlate armour for legs.
- spacelegsThe ability to work confidently in space, or a zero-gravity environment.
- tanglelegsAlcoholic liquor.
- spindlelegsA person with long thin legs.
- bootlegsplural of bootleg: To engage in bootlegging.
- longlegsA daddy longlegs.
- yellowlegsplural of yellowleg: Either of two species of shorebirds, of the genus Tringa, that have yellow legs
- forelegsplural of foreleg: Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.
- bowlegsplural of bowleg: A leg that curves outward at the knee.
- froglegsAlternative form of frog legs: The hind legs of a frog used as food.