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give a leg up

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give someone a leg up (informal)

to help someone to be more successful. It must give you a leg up if you want to be an actor and your parents are both in the profession.

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More likely than not, the mentor is going to learn a little something about life from that kid they're trying to give a leg up to. MENTOR LEARNS AS MUCH AS SHE TAUGHT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Those acquisitions give a leg up to Avery in providing apparel labels to large retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Acquisitions boosting Avery's debt load, worry ratings firm. ... by Palazzo, Anthony / Los Angeles Business Journal But Connerly never asks whether it really makes more sense for universities to use admissions standards than to take account of high school grades and indirectly give a leg up to students attending bad schools while ignoring the other 50 percent of what's important: standardized test scores and family environment. CREATING EQUAL: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Kahlenberg, Richard D. / Washington Monthly More results

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More likely than not, the mentor is going to learn a little something about life from that kid they're trying to give a leg up to.

MENTOR LEARNS AS MUCH AS SHE TAUGHT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Those acquisitions give a leg up to Avery in providing apparel labels to large retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Acquisitions boosting Avery's debt load, worry ratings firm. ... by Palazzo, Anthony / Los Angeles Business Journal

But Connerly never asks whether it really makes more sense for universities to use admissions standards than to take account of high school grades and indirectly give a leg up to students attending bad schools while ignoring the other 50 percent of what's important: standardized test scores and family environment.

CREATING EQUAL: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Kahlenberg, Richard D. / Washington Monthly

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