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
"That dish," he said once, "should be eaten on one's knees."
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
But there! one does not go down on one's knees, combustively, as it were, before a woman over fifty, plain in feature, thin, dejected, and ill-dressed.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
"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
V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's knees, prostrate oneself; worship &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
