Idioms with the word KNEE

You're now a fiancée planning on your bachelor party with your friends. Everybody has a lot of ideas for that special night, but you're very convinced it's going to be a very simple event. Your friends, on the other hand, have a total different perspective towards it. They have actually crossed the line when one of them suggested bringing a striper into the party, and everybody agreed joyfully. With a knee-jerk reaction, however, you rained on their parade by saying immediately no.

But what's a knee-jerk reaction by the way? To answer that question, let's get back to the story and imagine that what was suggested by your friends sounded so absurd that, as an automatic or reflex reaction, you answered no. That's what a knee-jerk reaction is: an instant, instinctive response to a situation. People usually tend to have that kind of reaction when something affects their beliefs.

Now that you've learned a brand new expression, let's go to the second idiom of the day: Weak at the knees. Let's suppose for instance you're to give a lecture in a couple of days and you're not that confident about it. You feel the subject you'll be covering is not very clear in your mind and certainly that's gonna affect the quality of your speech. When the day of the lecture has come and you're finally confronted by all of those looks of judgment, you panic. Actually you feel like you're going weak at the knees.

When you go weak at the knees, it's very easy to understand that what is actually happening here is that you're having such a powerful emotional reaction to something that it feels like you might fall over.  That's when we usually have that famous jittery feeling, sweaty palms, jagged nerves, choking insecurity and a heart pounding out of our chest. All of those emotions mixed together make us go weak at the knees.

Now I wanna know from you. Tell me about the times when you had a knee-jerk reaction or when you were so nervous that you went weak at your knees. Talk to you next time!