lank sleeve
lank sleeve
1. obsolete An empty sleeve, as when one only has one arm. Maybe the tailor can do something with the lank sleeve he now sports courtesy of the war.
2. obsolete By extension, someone who only has one arm. This says that our great-grandfather was a "lank sleeve" after getting injured in the war.
See also: sleeve
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- (one) could use (something)
- drive (one) out of office
- force (one) out of office
- force out of office
- cooking for one
- 1FTR
- (one) could stand (something)
- as one door closes, another (one) opens
- as one door closes, another one opens
- as one door closes, another opens