leg up

"At one stage Des did kick his leg up in defence and as far as we know he did not have contact," she said.

Giving applicants a leg up is apparently unfair only if it advantages people of color.

“Given the fuel moistures, we should have a little bit of a leg up on that.”

“They’ve created this perception that individuals that graduate from the most selective, wealthiest institutions ... have a leg up on everybody else,” he said.

Doran, who fought the Silverado fire, said his team had a leg up thanks to a decade-long partnership between Orchard Hills and the fire authority stretching back to when the developer, Irvine Co., broke ground in 2014.