on one's knees
Example Sentences
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Well," Rusk replied, "these are questions that one approaches on one's knees.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The piety most real to her," Fleda says in The Spoils of Poynton, "was to be on one's knees before one's high standard."
From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert
Adj. requesting &c. v.; precatory†; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory†. importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Their capacity for loving us in spite of what we are is a thing to go down on one's knees for.
From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud
"That dish," he said once, "should be eaten on one's knees."
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
