Sentence examples for gives you a leg up from inspiring English sources

To begin with, you're still alive, which gives you a leg up.

"Celebrity is an advantage: It gives you a leg up, but you have to be careful about it," Ornstein said.

Among the men who were recently settled, the reverse was true, which Gnaulati interprets to mean that "A.D.H.D. in actuality gives you a leg up under nomadic conditions when you have to forage and hunt, but acts as a hindrance when you have to slow down and plow the soil".

When such information is not available, however, Strader says the mutation approach "at least gives you a leg up".

The strategy guide helps you identify such runs, and gives you a leg up on how to bet.

"The whole idea with that ― just like with anything that's sequel-ized, franchised, rebooted or remade ― is that there is a built-in familiarity with the source material, and that theoretically gives you a leg up," Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore, told HuffPost.

Eating upstairs will give you a leg up, but not a guarantee.

Your Googling gave you a leg up in the trivia department.

A letter will not bridge a $100,000 gap between bids, agents and brokers say, nor will it give you a leg up with developers selling new condominiums.

Sometimes, purchasing at the end of the month, when dealers want to meet a quota, may give you a leg up.

"It doesn't give you a leg up on the admissions process," said Victoria Goldman, author of the sixth edition of "The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools".