down on one's knees
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English
[edit]Phrase
[edit]- Begging or pleading for something desperately.
- 1997, “You Get What You Give”, in Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too, performed by the New Radicals:
- 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