Comments on: Legs Akimbo

By: Legs Akimbo Band

Legs Akimbo Band — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:49:59 +0000

To learn all about Legs Akimbo, come to our show at
This Must Be The Place 206 Main Street Lemont, IL
Saturday – June 5th – 9:30pm

All will become clear to you.

Thanks :-;

By: Csprrr

Csprrr — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:23:18 +0000

hmm I thought it was from Japanese hah! (based on nothing but its appearance)

other than that i’ve never heard or read the phrase ‘legs akimbo’, but I would be rightly confused if I did!

because

Akimbo, amazingly, to me means something like “wielding one in the right hand and another of the same in the left” as in “akimbo pistols” … how did this happen?!

By: greg

greg — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:49:07 +0000

In my youth I read some cowboy / western themed books – and I grew up in a part of Kansas where people who work horses aren’t rare. “Legs akimbo” as a phrase isn’t unknown in western genres – and if you’ve seen a bow-legged cowboy, or cowgirl, the phrase immediately makes sense.

By: Simon Kewin

Simon Kewin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:01:25 +0000

Amazing Blair,

Well, I wouldn’t say it’s a phrase people use all the time over here, but it certainly does get used from time to time. Your ASCII art works very well; perhaps I should have done something similar in my original post!

By: Amazing Blair

Amazing Blair — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:48 +0000

Simon,
Interesting! So “legs akimbo” has wide usage in the UK. I should note that I am located in the US, specifically in the South. Perhaps we can tentatively state that the phrase is not much used in America.

It’s also interesting that legs akimbo has developed a meaning unrelated to the original arms akimbo; in the original, the arms are certainly not spread wide but are rather bent at the elbows, thus:

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