new legs
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Energy or momentum for continuing provided by a change.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new, leg.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "To be honest, after me growing Boost to where it was at this stage, the business needed new legs to continue the journey."
- "What's happened is, she's just given the whole story new legs."