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Meaning of down on one's knees | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

Begging or pleading for something desperately.

Examples

“Wake up, kids, we got the dreamer’s disease / Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees / So polite, we’re busy still saying please”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

down- dragged through the garden drastic times call for drastic measures dream on dress for the slide, not the ride dripping water hollows a stone