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Idiom: Not have a leg to stand on
Please accept my apologies in advance, but I have to use good ol’ Trumpy again to illustrate today’s phrase.
You see, Trumpy is huffing and puffing and trying to blow the election down (a reference to the nursery rhyme ‘the three little pigs.’), but he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
What I mean is he has no facts or somewhat believable reasons to support his claims.
It is a tale
Shakespeare’s Mcbeth
Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
In this crazy world of a so-called ‘China virus,’ Brexit, Go To Travel campaigns, and Rudy Giuliani’s runny hair dye, Trump, the American Commander in Chief’s argument that the election was stolen by some as yet unnamed group in some to-be-determined and completely unproven conspiracy is only one example of his many statements that don’t have a leg to stand on but still seem to exist.
If you are going to tell a lie, a good lie, one that can be believed, it must have some plausibility of truth.
A good lie is believable and requires some effort to prove its untruthfulness.
Trump is like a little kid who got caught by his mother stealing cookies from the cookie jar.
Even though his mouth is full and he can only mumble while crumbs are falling out of his mouth, he persists in denying the truth.
They both don’t have a leg to stand on, but at least the child is cute, whereas Trumpy is not.
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