weak in the knees
Example Sentences
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The most ambitious of these is a Shed commission that may leave you feeling, literally, weak in the knees.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
Or maybe it’s that you can’t look at it all at once, as Greene says, because “you’d almost get weak in the knees if you did”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
It’s unlikely that Mueller, a former Marine Corps officer who fought in Vietnam, will turn weak in the knees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
So here are the five films that stole my heart and made me weak in the knees.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2017
I go weak in the knees with dread and admiration, watching him sharpen his hopes.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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