Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 4 compound words that contain knees. The most common are listed below. Open knees in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- the bee's kneesSomething or someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
- knees-upA party.
- bring someone to their kneesTo defeat and make submit to orders.
- flying kneesplural of flying knee: A strike performed by jumping forward and hitting the opponent with the knee.
- knock-kneesplural of knock-knee: The medical condition genu valgum.
- cypress kneesplural of cypress knee: A woody projection forming above the roots of certain cypress species, perhaps to aid in oxygenation to the roots or to anchor the tree in soft, muddy soil.
- on one's kneesKneeling, begging or as if begging.
- great thick-kneesplural of great thick-knee: A species of stone-curlew, Burhinus recurvirostris, of continental Asia, from Iran east to southern China.
- weak in the kneesAlternative form of weak-kneed: Lacking will power or strength of character; timid.
- on one's hands and kneesWith one's body bent over so that the knees and palms of the hands are touching the floor.
- down on one's kneesBegging or pleading for something desperately.
- fall to one's kneesTo collapse into a crouched kneeling position.
- knees-upsplural of knees-up: A party.
- thick-kneesplural of thick-knee: Any of several species of large terrestrial birds in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae.
- ox kneesplural of ox knee: Cyathula officinalis, a species of Sino-Nepali amaranth-family plant.
- beach thick-kneesplural of beach thick-knee: A species of stone-curlew, Esacus magnirostris, of Southeast Asia, Australasia and the western Pacific.
- bush thick-kneesplural of bush thick-knee: A species of stone-curlew, Burhinus grallarius, of Australia and southern New Guinea.
- Eurasian thick-kneesplural of Eurasian thick-knee: A species of stone-curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus, of Eurasia, the Middle East, and northern Africa.
- weaker in the kneescomparative form of weak in the knees: more weak in the knees
- weakest in the kneessuperlative form of weak in the knees: most weak in the knees
- muh soggy kneesMisogyny.
- cut someone off at the kneesTo abruptly thwart someone, shut them down, or put them in their place.
- cuts someone off at the kneesthird-person singular simple present indicative of cut someone off at the knees: To abruptly thwart someone, shut them down, or put them in their place.
- cutting someone off at the kneespresent participle and gerund of cut someone off at the knees
- hollows of the kneesplural of hollow of the knee: A poplit. (a shallow depression located at the back of the knee joint)
Compound words 4
- kneesyAmorous touching of each others knees
- kneesockAlternative form of knee sock: A sock that reaches almost up to the knee.
- kneestonesplural of kneestone: Synonym of kneeler (“type of stone on a gable end”).
- pushkneesplural of pushknee: A triangular steel structure incorporated into or attached to the bow of a pushboat, allowing the boat to face up to a barge which is higher than the deck of the pushboat.