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