show a leg

When we hear you bawling, "Show a leg!"

And do show a leg, my dear chap: we shall be late, without you spread a little more canvas.'

Major came marching down the passage with his heavy tread, unlocking the doors and yelling to us to show a leg.

'Had you shown a leg sooner, you would have saved your bacon,' said Jack.

Show a leg and grab a sock!'

Show a leg there!

Gaiters, you would imagine, would have been banned years ago, as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape.

Or maybe you have been told to show a leg, been taken aback or have been made to run the gauntlet.

'Come, sir, show a leg,' said Killick angrily.

'Show a leg, matey,' says he: 'time to turn out guard.'

Come on--lash up and stow; show a leg, show a leg, look alive there!

He calls them "gala dresses," a term that embraces bouffant styles draped to show a leg and clingy, taut dresses, draped to show off the rest of the body.

A layered dress of doubled chiffon, in a spiral of one long piece that folds back on itself, is sheer, with an asymmetrical slip beneath, cut seductively to show a leg.

Perigard describes her as "undeniably appealing" and Lowry states, "Justice is winsome and talented enough to provide the latest show a leg up in connecting with tween girls."

Show A Leg a catalogue by Francis McKee for Pipilotti Rist's exhibition of the same name at Tramway, Glasgow (2002)

We'll never get a decent cabin without you show a leg - Mr Babbington and Mr Byron and all them wicked reefers nipping aboard of her like ferrets, swiping all the decent berths.

The word passed - cap'n's cox'n, cap'n's cox'n, come on George, show a leg George, at the double George, you're in trouble George, George is going to be crucified, ha, ha, ha - and Barret Bonden appeared.