An Important Reminder About How To Use "Akimbo"

“The physicist Brian Cox is not an elected fellow of the Royal Society, as we described him (Better than rock’n’roll, 24 March, page 5, G2). He has a university research fellowship. The same article described Cox as standing ‘legs akimbo’. Arms can be akimbo, legs can’t. It means hands on hips, with the elbows outwards.”