stand in need of

In the letter he asked for “one of your scrapers as my teeth stand in need of cleaning.”

It was only too likely that they would encounter dangers beyond the warren and that they would stand in need of some good fighters.

“This Year of Mercy is first of all a reminder to all of us that before God we all stand in need of mercy; so in this we are all poor.”

“This Year of Mercy is first of all a reminder to all of us that before God we all stand in need of mercy; so in this we are all poor.”

Today, liberals use it to imply that the nation and perhaps even the Constitution weren’t immaculately conceived and stand in need of reform.