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Trad. 齊膝
- level with one's knees
- knee-length (skirt etc)
- knee-deep (mud etc)
Trad. 繞膝
- (children) run around parent's knees
- fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents
- at the knee (in reference to children)
- (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
- to walk on one's knees and bare one's breast (a gesture of deepest apology)
Trad. 奴顏婢膝
- servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning
- bending and scraping to curry favor
Trad. 促膝談心
- (idiom) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk
Trad. 繞膝承歡
- to live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness (idiom)
- to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning
- bending and scraping to curry favor
Trad. 膝上型電腦
- laptop (computer)
Trad. 男人膝下有黃金
- lit. the man has gold under his knees; fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing to pride or moral integrity)