Idiom
couldn't stop a pig in a passage
Meaning
To be bow-legged.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is so bow-legged that he couldn't stop a pig in a passage.”
“The old farmer joked that his neighbor couldn't stop a pig in a passage because his legs were so crooked.”
“Observing the man's distinctively wide gait, the villagers remarked that he certainly couldn't stop a pig in a passage.”
Examples
simple
“He is so bow-legged that he couldn't stop a pig in a passage.”
contextual
“The old farmer joked that his neighbor couldn't stop a pig in a passage because his legs were so crooked.”
complex
“Observing the man's distinctively wide gait, the villagers remarked that he certainly couldn't stop a pig in a passage.”
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