Meanings
adverbleg before (not comparable)
- colloquialnot comparableball gamesLeg before wicket.
‘Jim Hopkin’s umpiring? He wouldn’t know leg before from a leg of mutton.’
1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 153
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