down on one's knees

phrase

Begging or pleading for something desperately.

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Meanings

phrase
  1. Begging or pleading for something desperately.

    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

    1997, “You Get What You Give”, in Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too, performed by the New Radicals
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APA

down on one's knees. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20on%20one's%20knees

MLA

“down on one's knees.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20on%20one's%20knees. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “down on one's knees,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20on%20one's%20knees.

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