Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is bring someone/something to their/its knees and its meaning is “to overpower someone/something and make their/its condition extremely weak”.
Example Sentence: Just a few months of Covid lockdown, without a military curfew or communications siege, has brought the world to its knees and hundreds of millions to the limits of their endurance and sanity. Think of Kashmir under the densest military deployment in the world.
This phrase is present in The The Guardian article Modi’s brutal treatment of Kashmir exposes his tactics – and their flaws and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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