keep your legs crossed

keep your legs crossed
   (of a female)
   not to be promiscuous
   The imagery is obvious. Also as keep your legs together:
    I don't think she keeps her legs crossed all the time. (Price, 1972)
    [She] had kept her legs tightly together. (Price, 1975)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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