English

Verb

get one's leg over

1. (intransitive, slang) To have sex

   It's all well and good having a relationship, but at the end of the day all I want to do is get my leg over.

2. Used other than as an idiom: see get,‎ one's,‎ leg,‎ over.

   1991: He just didn't quite get his leg over. — Jonathan Agnew, BBC Test Match Special, describing Ian Botham treading on his stumps. Co-commentator Brian Johnston was reduced to a fit of on-air giggles at the (presumably unintentional) double-entendre with the slang sense above. Quoted in The Guinness Book of Cricket Blunders, Cris Freddi, Guinness Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-85112-624-3, page 138.

Related terms

• get over on