词汇 | weak-at-the-knees |
释义 | weak at the kneesidiom If you go weak at the knees, you lose your strength and feel you are going to fall over, usually because of seeing or talking about either someone you are very attracted to or because of something unpleasant or frightening: (通常指因看到或谈到非常喜欢的人或让人害怕的事而)膝盖发软的,腿发软的 The thought of kissing him made me go weak at the knees.吻他的念头让我膝盖发软。 Weakness and vulnerability Achilles heel asthenia at a low ebbidiom atonic atony fragile fragility frail glass jaw helpless shakily shakiness shaky sitting duck sitting target weakling weakly weakness weedy wetly Examples of weak at the kneesweak at the knees They have gone weakattheknees at the thought of having to stand up for something. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other gas tests, he says, left him nauseous, dizzy and weakattheknees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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