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
I knew the monarchy was rotten—rotten to the very core; but I said, Better to die in the street � cheval than behind the arras on one's knees.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
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
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
There is a way of balancing oneself on the edge of the seat and holding the paper on one's knees which makes for steadiness.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
