A Yorkshire idiom describing someone who is severely bow-legged — their legs so curved that even a pig could pass between them unchecked. Typically deployed in good-natured ribbing, it reflects the British tradition of mocking physical traits with elaborately specific rural imagery. The phrase is largely obsolete outside older Yorkshire dialect speakers; in active use it would function as a teasing put-down with a comedic country flavour.
The old farrier walked in and someone muttered he couldn't stop a pig in a passage — legs bent like a wishbone.
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(Yorkshire, idiomatic) To be bow-legged.
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