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What does weak-kneed mean?

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Adjective
  1. (figuratively) Lacking will power or strength of character; timid.
  2. (literally) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see weak,‎ kneed.
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Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old.
If this movie makes you think that much, then you're too weak-kneed to vote.
His eyes met mine and I felt curiously light-headed and weak-kneed. I tore my eyes away with an effort, trying not to think about him.
Which is why we will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fiber of our own politicians.
It's more important to keep law and order in this society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the look of helmets.
He wants to be just anti-war enough to appeal to anti-war Democrats but just pro-war enough that he doesn't come across as weak-kneed.

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