| 词汇 | give a leg up |
| 词源 | give a leg up. To give a leg up is to help someone climb up, as in mounting a horse, or, figuratively, to help someone over any difficulty. “The wall is very low, sir,” Dickens wrote in Pickwick Papers (1837), the first recorded use of the phrase, “and your servant will give you a leg up.” |
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