Noun: new legs
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like new legs
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology