upon one's legs
English
Prepositional phrase
- Synonym of on one's legs (“in an independent position”)
- 1885, Investors Chronicle and Money Market Review, volume 49, page 625:
- […] but it is clear, from Mr. Lov's circular, that if these charges were paid off the company could be easily put upon its legs again; […]
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