what is the meaning of this idioms to have a clean pair of heels, to go through the mill?

Question

to not have a leg to stand on, to jump a dam, to jump a gun, and lastly, to keep a stiff upper lip.

Answer 1

It seems pretty obvious that, even if someone started with a clean pair of heels if they went through the mill and didn't have any legs after then it wouldn't matter about heels. Then jumping dams or guns is also moot. So yeah I guess they have a stiff upper lip 'cause they're pouting 'cause they can't move.

Answer 2

a cleen pair of heels means you have nothing to hide,that noboby can dig up any **** about you, when you go through the mill,!!and the mill being a question,!!either from your girlfriend, an employer, going for a new job, anything,!! you can answer the question with nothing to hide,!! no leg to stand on, no chance, jump a dam, no chance, jump the gun, the answer is in your head befor you ask a question, stiff upper lip, no matter what anybody says or does to you you stand proud,!!

Answer 3

Through the mill - mill is used to grind grain into flour, so through the mill means an arduous or rough process (as if you were the grain)

Stiff upper lip - refers to the quaking of the upper lip before someone cries, keeping it stiff means not showing your emotion

Clean pair of heels - means you haven't walked in them yet, have no experience, diddn't get your feet dirty, stepping in type thing.

Jump the gun refers to a race start, if you take off ahead of the starter's pistol - you've jumped the gun

Not having a leg to stand on refers to having your legs cut out from underneath you or to your case having no merit to stand on (merit being the legs in this case) I don't kow the origin of this one though

Answer 4

Shake a leg
Meaning:Rouse yourself from sleep and get out of bed.
Origin:Shake a leg and show a leg are usually discussed together, but it isn't at all clear that they are in any way connected. Both phrases have more than one meaning. So what were their original meanings and which came first?
We now sometimes use shake a leg to mean 'hurry up'. It was explicitly defined that way in the New York Magazine in 1904:
"Shake a leg ... meaning to 'hurry up'."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shake-a-leg.html


Keep a stiff upper lip
Meaning:Remain resolute and unemotional in the face of adversity, or even tragedy.
Origin: This is such a clichéd expression that it is difficult to imagine doing anything else with a stiff upper lip apart from keeping it. It is similar to 'keep a straight face', 'keep you chin up', and (to the amusement of many Americans) 'keep your pecker up'. The phrase has become symbolic of the British, and particularly of the products of the English public school system during the age of the British Empire.....
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/keep-a-stiff-upper-lip.html

Many meanings of these are located at these pages listed alphabetically......

Answer 5

The first one means to have a clean record, the second one means to go through tough times, the third one means out of options, don't know the fourth one, the next one is to jump the gun
which means to start before you know why,and the last one is to have courage in the face of trouble times or to be brave.

Answer 6

JUMP DAM: ?
MILL ? GRINDING IS DONE AT MILLS;
MAY REFER TO "ARMOUR" NEEDED TO
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BEING INJURED
OR "GROUND DOWN"
WHEN GOING THRU THE MILL

LEG TO STAND ON: WITHOUT EVIDENCE
WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE
WITHOUT A CASE


JUMP THE GUN: REFERS TO A "PREMATURE" START
(STARTING GUNS WERE USED TO
START RACES)

STIFF UPPER LIP: RETAIN COMPOSURE; BE BRAVE