weak knees
Legs like jelly
Weak knees describes the physical sensation of legs becoming unsteady—from fear, arousal, or overwhelming emotion.
Someone might get weak knees meeting a celebrity or standing at the edge of a cliff.
That smile gives me weak knees.
To be weak-kneed (hyphenated as an adjective) is to lack resolve or courage: a weak-kneed response to the crisis.
- wobblyTending to teeter
- tremblingInvoluntary shaking motion
- shakyTrembling or unstable
- bucklingBending from compression
- jellyFruit spread, no seeds
quivering · faint · swoon · nervous · nervous wreck · butterflies · lovesick · collapse · unstable · faltering · tottering · dizzy · lightheaded · infatuation · crush · head over heels · love at first sight · speechless
- bodily sensationspain, ache, tingling, burning, numbness
- flirtingpickup line, wink, winking, hair flip, chat-up line
- anxiety signspanic, nervousness, worry, worrying, trembling
- stress symptomsanxiety attack, panic attack, panic attacks, stress headache, tension headache
- infatuationcrush, infatuation, infatuated, smitten, first love
- dizzinessdizziness, dizzy spell, lightheadedness, vertigo, wooziness
weak kneesfirm footing
stable footing · sea legs · sure footing · sure-footedness · strong legs
weak kneesbackbone
Vertebral column, or courage
nerves of steel · stiff upper lip · iron will · intestinal fortitude · steadfastness
weak kneesunmoved
Not stirred physically/emotionally
heart of stone · cold fish · stoic · unflappable · unaffected
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