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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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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.
It wasn't exertion that left him weak-kneed and trembling, but rather the gut-wrenching horror of Joe's scream and his pleas for mercy.
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.
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.
Which is why we will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fiber of our own politicians.
Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old.

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