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Noun edit

the leg business

  1. (slang) Ballet.
    • 2010, Ann Daly, Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America, page 171:
      By dismantling these sets of opposition that structured the image of the dancer in turn-of-the-century theater, Duncan hoped to free her of the leg business and elevate her into the category of "Art," which Duncan equated with the Platonic realm of "the True, the Good and the Beautiful."