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{
"form": "has legs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "having legs",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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}
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"ref": "2007, Pete Williams, How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into a Reality (from the Man who Sold the MCG), Milton, Qld.: Wrightbooks, page 68",
"text": "Your plan will tell you if your idea has legs and is viable.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Larry Garrison with Wallace Wang, Breaking Into Acting for Dummies, New York, N.Y.: Wiley Publishing",
"text": "The longer a film plays (which, in show business terms, means that the film has legs), the more the theater gradually earns from ticket sales.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time."
],
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],
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"(idiomatic) To have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time."
],
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"_dis1": "99 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "kestää"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "avoir la peau dure"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "avoir la vie dure"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "életképes"
}
]
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"Fundamental"
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"To have speed."
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"(nautical) To have speed."
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, legs."
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"_dis1": "24 5 70",
"word": "a lie has no legs"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 5 70",
"word": "die hard"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 5 70",
"word": "go a long way"
}
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"_dis1": "24 5 70",
"word": "carry on"
},
{
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"word": "endure"
},
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"_dis1": "24 5 70",
"word": "hold up"
}
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"text": "Your plan will tell you if your idea has legs and is viable.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Larry Garrison with Wallace Wang, Breaking Into Acting for Dummies, New York, N.Y.: Wiley Publishing",
"text": "The longer a film plays (which, in show business terms, means that the film has legs), the more the theater gradually earns from ticket sales.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time."
],
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"endurance"
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[
"prospect",
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"(idiomatic) To have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time."
],
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]
},
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"To have speed."
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"nautical"
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],
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"(nautical) To have speed."
],
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"transport"
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, legs."
],
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[
"legs",
"legs#English"
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]
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"tags": [
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "carry on"
},
{
"word": "endure"
},
{
"word": "hold up"
}
],
"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "kestää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "avoir la peau dure"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "avoir la vie dure"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time",
"word": "életképes"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"2014 London Marathon"
],
"word": "have legs"
}
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