go on bended knee

Mr Burnham recently told a House of Lords committee: "Devolution cannot be begging-bowl devolution, where we constantly go on bended knee, saying: 'Can we have a bit of money for this? Can we have a bit of money for that?'"

Outside the bloc, “Britain would have to go on bended knee to either President Trump or the remaining E.U. I think we have greater power, greater influence in the E.U.”

During tours some fans go on bended knee and propose to partners, he said.

“It’s like we have to go on bended knee and beg, and it shouldn’t be that way,” she said.

“There is no reason we should have to go on bended knee to ask them,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut.