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📖 Определения и значения для слова knee

📒 the joint between the top and bottom parts of the leg where it bends in the middle

  • a knee injury
  • I had knee surgery three years ago.
  • Bend your knees until you feel your thigh muscles working.

📒 the part of a piece of clothing that covers the knee

  • I brushed the dust from the knees of my trousers.
  • at the knee These jeans are torn at the knee.
  • a knee patch

📒 the top surface of the upper part of the legs when you are sitting down

  • Come and sit on Daddy's knee.
  • She had a blanket draped across her knees.
  • She sat on her father's knee while he read her a story.

📒 when you were very young

  • I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.

📒 an excellent person or thing

  • She thinks she's the bee's knees (= she has a very high opinion of herself).

📒 to defeat somebody, especially in a war

📒 to badly affect an organization, etc. so that it can no longer function

  • The strikes brought the industry to its knees.
  • The fuel shortage brought the country to its knees within weeks.

📒 if you ask for something on bended knee(s), you ask for it in a very anxious and/or humble way (= showing you think you are less important than the person you are asking)

  • I’d go down on bended knee if I thought she’d change her mind.

📒 to punish somebody by making them lie on top of your knee and hitting their bottom

📒 to kneel on one knee in public in order to protest about the unfair treatment of black people

  • Officers at the rally were seen taking a knee in solidarity with the demonstrators.

📒 hardly able to stand because of emotion, fear, illness, etc.

  • His sudden smile made her go weak at the knees.
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