The fuel shortage brought the automobile industry to its knees.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
bring to one's knees — {v. phr.} To seriously weaken the power or impair the function of. * /The fuel shortage brought the automobile industry to its knees./ … Dictionary of American idioms
bring to one's knees — {v. phr.} To seriously weaken the power or impair the function of. * /The fuel shortage brought the automobile industry to its knees./ … Dictionary of American idioms
bring one to his knees — v. humiliate, defeat … English contemporary dictionary
Chapter One: Greatest Hits — Compilation par Jay Z Sortie 11 mars 2002 Enregistrement 1996 2002 Genre Rap East Coast, Hip Hop Format … Wikipédia en Français
knee — See: bring to one s knees, in the lap of the gods also on the knees of the gods, on one s knees, up to the chin in or up to the knees in … Словарь американских идиом
humility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of pride Nouns 1. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowliness, lowness; [self ] abasement; submission, resignation; modesty, blush, suffusion, confusion. 2. humiliation, degradation, mortification;… … English dictionary for students
knee — See: BRING TO ONE S KNEES, IN THE LAP OF THE GODS also ON THE KNEES OF THE GODS, ON ONE S KNEES, UP TO THE CHIN IN or UP TO THE KNEE IN … Dictionary of American idioms
knee — See: BRING TO ONE S KNEES, IN THE LAP OF THE GODS also ON THE KNEES OF THE GODS, ON ONE S KNEES, UP TO THE CHIN IN or UP TO THE KNEE IN … Dictionary of American idioms
humble — adj 1. modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unpresuming, free from pride, without arrogance, unostentatious, reserved, restrained. 2. meek, mild, submissive, obsequious, servile, subservient, subsidiary, slavish, broken in spirit, unambitious,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
prostrate — 1. adjective 1) the prostrate figure on the ground Syn: prone, lying flat, lying down, stretched out, spread eagled, sprawling, horizontal, recumbent; rare procumbent Ant: upright 2) his wife was prostrate with shock … Thesaurus of popular words
