Example sentences of "off at the knee " in BNC.
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1 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
2 | His trousers , made of what looked like sacking , were chopped off at the knee , held up by a strap wound round his middle . |
3 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
4 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
5 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
6 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |