knee-crooking

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Obsequious; submissive. not-comparable
    — With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam […]

词源

Compare bend the knee.
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