on one's knees
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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 Henry W. Nevinson
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 Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 Peter Mark Roget
Their capacity for loving us in spite of what we are is a thing to go down on one's knees for.
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
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