Knee-tremblingly

[Victor Steinbok]

Because I was primed on a similar Russian expression, my first reaction
was "knee-trembling"==swoon-worthy. So "week-in-the-knees" sounds just
about right.

     VS-)

On 3/1/2011 6:00 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> I would define "knee-tremblingly" as "making you go weak in the knees",
> especially when used to modify "sexy, beautiful and moving".
>
> I would presume that a message from an institution serving the general
> public that refers to knocking or trembling knees is talking about fear or
> emotion.
>
> DanG
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:14 PM, George Thompson<george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:
>
>> The header to a message from a college theater:
>> Coming up: Knee-tremblingly sexy, beautiful and moving. (The Guardian, UK)
>> See Australia's CIRCA this weekend only
>>
>> Jonathon G's Dictionary of Slang has Knee-trembler = copulation performed
>> while standing.  (This was my first reaction.) ...

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