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bring to one's knees
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Idioms and Phrases
Make one submit; reduce to a position of subservience. For example, Solitary confinement usually brings prisoners to their knees . This particular phrase dates only from the late 1800s, although there were earlier versions alluding to being on one's knees as a gesture of submission.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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