on hands and knees

"We were looking at very dark black bone on a very dark grey rock. We were on hands and knees crawling, looking for small smears of bone on the surface," says Dr Paul Barrett who was on the expedition.

After the inchworms, we worked on hands and knees on a bear crawl.

Essentially, the Cardinal and Bears are on hands and knees, shamelessly begging for an escape hatch from an awful situation that they themselves created.

“There’s nothing more frustrating when you have a dirty diaper to change and the men’s room has no changing tables. I’ve had to get on hands and knees a few times,” Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., told Roll Call at the time.

In one, the artist gets down on hands and knees, almost as if cleaning the floor to prepare the space.