weak at/in the knees
idiom
: so nervous or powerfully affected that it is difficult to stand
The announcement made me weak at the knees.
She said hello to me and I went weak in the knees.
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What made my mother weak in the knees was a new Lady Kenmore dishwasher.
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Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
And was there anyone who didn't go weak at the knees for Saint Laurent?
—Alicia Lansom, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, guilty of being sellouts — and worse, unpatriotic.
—Michael S. Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
Though Sturbridge contains pieces that will make a fashion-nostalgic weak in the knees (Mary McFadden!
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
This movie, a teen-ready take on The Taming of the Shrew, offers some cute turns from youngsters Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, and Larisa Oleynik, but ask most women, and the performance that sticks out is Heath Ledger’s, whose thuggish Patrick Verona made many of us weak in the knees.
—Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
Utilizing a number of tools from pickaxes, hook shots, and ropecasters, the variety of ways to traverse and the tension created by suspending players thousands of feet in the air with actual thought required on how to progress is enough to leave some players weak in the knees.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
Fred Armisen was back in the bandstand for the December 5 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, and the Wednesday actor used his platform to float an idea that’s going to make Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno weak in the knees: an Oscars for movie cars.
—Vulture, 6 Dec. 2022
And now the Nittany Lions are playing a schedule that might make others weak in the knees.
—Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
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Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
And was there anyone who didn't go weak at the knees for Saint Laurent?
—Alicia Lansom, refinery29.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, guilty of being sellouts — and worse, unpatriotic.
—Michael S. Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
Though Sturbridge contains pieces that will make a fashion-nostalgic weak in the knees (Mary McFadden!
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
This movie, a teen-ready take on The Taming of the Shrew, offers some cute turns from youngsters Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, and Larisa Oleynik, but ask most women, and the performance that sticks out is Heath Ledger’s, whose thuggish Patrick Verona made many of us weak in the knees.
—Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
Utilizing a number of tools from pickaxes, hook shots, and ropecasters, the variety of ways to traverse and the tension created by suspending players thousands of feet in the air with actual thought required on how to progress is enough to leave some players weak in the knees.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
Fred Armisen was back in the bandstand for the December 5 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, and the Wednesday actor used his platform to float an idea that’s going to make Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno weak in the knees: an Oscars for movie cars.
—Vulture, 6 Dec. 2022
And now the Nittany Lions are playing a schedule that might make others weak in the knees.
—Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
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“Weak at/in the knees.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weak%20at%2Fin%20the%20knees. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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