on bended knee

Definitions

1. 1

   In a kneeling position.

   • On bended knee full long he prayed.
2. 2

   Supplicatingly, imploringly, suppliantly.

   • Mr. Skinner said airports would not have to rely as much on their airline tenants to approve expansion. "They will be able to build new gates without going to an airline on bended knee," he said.
   • "Howard Dean is the only candidate to have smashed fundraising records, not by going on bended knee to the wealthy but by empowering ordinary Americans to take part in their democracy," Mr Gross said.

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