weak-kneed
Adjective
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Adjective
weak-kneed
- (figuratively) Lacking will power or strength of character; timid.
- 1903, Jack London, The People of the Abyss, ch. 5:
- It is incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults, without virility or stamina, a weak-kneed, narrow-chested, listless breed, that crumples up and goes down in the brute struggle for life.
- 1903, Jack London, The People of the Abyss, ch. 5:
- (literally) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see weak, kneed
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