Leg It

The exclamation leg it! will today most likely be heard from a younger member of the working class English to instruct his peers to flee a would be assailant, an authority figure, or any other situation that warrants escape or rapid retreat.

The phrase originated in the 17th century when the most common form of freight transport was by barge. Although horses were used to pull the barge and it's payload along open sections of canal they were unable to do so through tunnels. In order to navigate a tunnel, men known as leggers were employed to push the barges through. By lying face up on the barge and pushing against the tunnel walls and roof, the legger would walk a barge through the tunnel. It could take up to 2 hours to leg a barge through the longer canal tunnels such as 'Mile Tunnel' at Foulridge on the Leeds Liverpool canal.

Legging was stopped in the 1800's when it was reported that a legger died of asphyxia.

Modern Translations: Leg It

Language		Translations for "leg it"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		merrem në këmbë. (various references)

Bulgarian		ходя пеша (stump), тичам (chase, course, go after, lick, race, run, run about, scamper about, scurry, skitter, tear, tear along), офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut, cut away, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, make off, nip off, run off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), запращам (aim, dash, drive, hurl, pitch, project, send, smash, sock, speed, throw, whirl). (various references)

Czech		bìžet (run, rush, scoot, speed, sprint, trot, work), šlapat (behave, pad, tramp, tread). (various references)

Finnish		kulkea jalkaisin (walk). (various references)

German		laufen (be in motion, be in progress, be on, be playing, be showing, go, go on, hurry, incur, leak, melt, operate, race, roll, run, run a race, running, runs, show, slip, walk, work), zu fuß gehen (walk). (various references)

Hungarian		gyalog megy (to go on foot, to walk). (various references)

Pig Latin		eglay itay

Portuguese		pé de mesa. (various references)

Romanian		umbla (circulate, drive, go, go up, journey, pace, pad, ride, scour, travel, walk, wander, work), o şterge (hook it, make oneself scarce, pack, sling one's hook, take one's hook, take to one's legs), merge (act, draw, drive, fir, foot, function, get, go, hark, hedge, hit, make, move, operate, pace, pass, repair, ride, roll, run, stand, step, travel, work). (various references)

Russian		ходить (attend, march, run, walk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pešačiti (hike, hoof, walk), ići peške. (various references)

Spanish		vence, márchate. (various references)

Swedish		springa (burst, chink, course, cranny, crevice, hare, interstice, jump, opening, pop, race, run, scurry, slit, slot, vent), skynda sig (busk, hurry up, hustle, make haste, rush), gå (be off, carry, come, extend, get, go, go away, keep, lead, leave, move, pass, reach, resign, retire, run, sail, step, stride, tread, trot, waddle, walk). (various references)

Thai		รีบวิ่งหนี (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		koşmak (career, clip, course, harness, jog, leg, run, rush, scamper, scamper about, scour, scurry, shin, team, yoke), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), hızlı yürümek (be a good walker, leg, step out, trot, walk quickly). (various references)

Ukranian		мерщій (come on). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Leg It

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: legit.
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-t"
	-1 letter: gelt, gilt, lite, tile.
	-2 letters: gel, get, gie, git, leg, lei, let, lie, lit, teg, tel, tie, til.
	-3 letters: el, et, it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-t"
	+1 letter: aiglet, elegit, gelati, gentil, giblet, giglet, gimlet, glutei, legist, legits, ligate, piglet, regilt, tingle, wiglet.
	+2 letters: aiglets, atingle, belting, delight, egalite, elating, elegist, elegits, eluting, felting, gelatin, genital, gentile, giblets, giglets, gilbert, gillnet, gimlets, glaiket, glinted, glisten, glister, glitter, glitzes, gluiest, gristle, gutlike, kinglet, legists, lentigo, letting, ligated, ligates, lighted, lighten, lighter, lignite, logiest, melting, pelting, piglets, relight, ringlet, singlet, sleight, taglike, telling, tillage, tingled, tingler, tingles, ugliest, welting, wiglets, winglet.
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Leg It

Definition: Leg It

Leg It

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Modern Translations: Leg It

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Bulgarian

Czech

Finnish

German

Hungarian

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Thai

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Anagrams: Leg It

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Alternative Orthography: Leg It

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