make a leg



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make a leg

obsolete To make a show of obeisance or fealty by bowing deeply (drawing one's right leg back in the process). As I began extinguishing the lamps for the night, a small wiry man appeared before me, wearing a comically oversized suit and making a leg in a most melodramatic fashion.
See also: leg, make

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
DamarisDAM-ə-ris (English)Biblical, Biblical Greek
Rizwana-Urdu, Arabic
Laraine-English
Itsaso-Basque
KrishnaKRISH-na (Hinduism)Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Hilaire-French