down on one's knees

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down on one's knees

1. Begging or pleading for something desperately.
   • 1997, “You Get What You Give”, in Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too, performed by the New Radicals:

     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