Meaning:
An advantage, a boost
Examples:
- For a leg up at work?
- Qualifications: A background in health care will give you a leg up, and some employers offer training for entry-level positions.
- That's why he worked so hard, to give you a leg up.
- That gives you a leg up on the average citizen.
- And this gives us a leg up on adaptability.
- Who says I want a leg up on anybody?
- Just helping the youth of America get a leg up.
- Surely, after all this time, he deserves a leg up.
- And being older may not give you a leg up.
- So I did have a leg up on the city.