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idiomkneesbe the bee's kneesspoken used in order to say that you think someone or something is very good, attractive etc:I gave my nephew one of those Nintendo games for his birthday, and he just thinks it's the bee's knees.The guy I was working with at the bar thought he was the bee's knees because he knew something about beer.bring sth to its knees(also bring sb to his/her knees)1 to have a very bad effect on an organization or group of people, so that it is difficult for it to continue its activity:A combination of bad luck and mismanagement has brought the bank to its knees.Remember that this country was almost brought to its knees by a series of strikes in the seventies.2 to defeat a country or its leader in a war:In World War I, people thought that we would bring the enemy to their knees in a few weeks.Under Bolshevik leadership, the people brought the Tsarist regime to its knees.go down on your knees(also go down on bended knee)to show a lot of emotion when you are asking someone for something, because you want it so much:What should I do - go down on my knees and ask him for a job?Do you think Mrs Briggs would let us use the art room, if I went down on bended knee?
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See:- (one's) knees are knocking
- (one's) knees are shaking
- a knee-slapper
- at (one's) knee
- at (one's) mother's knee
- at your mother's knee
- be knee-deep in
- be knee-high to a grasshopper
- be the bee's knees
- be/go weak at the knees
- bee's knees
- beg on bended knee
- bow the knee
- bring (someone or something) to (someone's or something's) knees
- bring somebody to their knees
- bring someone or something to their knees
- bring someone to their knees
- bring something to its knees
- bring to knees
- bring to one's knees
- fall on (one's) knees
- fall on knees
- fall to (one's) knees
- go down on (one's) knees
- go down on knees
- go weak at the knees
- go weak in the knees
- knee biter
- knee high to a grasshopper
- knee-deep in
- knee-deep in something
- knee-deep navy
- knee-high by the 4th of July
- knee-high to a grasshopper
- knee-high to a jackrabbit
- knee-jerk
- knee-jerk reaction
- knee-mail
- knock knees together
- on (one's) hands and knees
- on (one's)/its knees
- on bended knee
- on your hands and knees
- on your knees
- out at the elbows
- out at the knees
- put (someone) over (one's) knee
- take a knee
- the bee's knees
- up to knees
- up to one’s knees
- weak at the knees
- weak in the knees
- weak-kneed
- your knees are knocking
- your/somebody's knees are knocking
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