new legs

noun

Energy or momentum for continuing provided by a change.

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Meanings

nounnew legs pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyEnergy or momentum for continuing provided by a change.

    What's happened is, she's just given the whole story new legs.

    2014, Dominic Utton, Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time, →ISBN, page 231
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    Along with the growing crisis in the Middle East, this troubling thought seemed to give new legs to realism in American foreign policy, that is, the view that we should be less concerned about the internal social and political makeup of a nation than we should its external behavior.

    2008, Thomas F. Farr, World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security, →ISBN

    To be honest, after me growing Boost to where it was at this stage, the business needed new legs to continue the journey.

    2013, Janine Allis, The Secrets of My Success: The Story of Boost Juice, Juicy Bits and All, →ISBN
  2. pluralplural onlyUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new, leg.

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with new legs

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APA

new legs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/new%20legs

MLA

“new legs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/new%20legs. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “new legs,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/new%20legs.

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