Anyone know the meaning of "cut off at the knees"?

0 Hard to say without knowing the city or context. Possibly a city of very short buildings? 0-

0 Does is means that some system of the city is tremendous damaged? For example, the transport ..... 0-

0“Cut off at the knees” means exhausted, worn out, beaten down. It happens to a city when a major facility such as a power plant is shut down, or when there is an economic or political crisis. The expression is derived from sports. When players keep falling on the ground, the skin at their knees is “cut off”, or their pants are “cut of at the knees.”0-

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00"Even after exploring the whole town, I'm having a tough time classifying this place. Is it a city, or a quaint little country village? It's certainly dense enough, and self-sufficient enough, what with the multitude of shopes. But as evidenced by the department store, nothing extends more than two

0The context has explained the phrase , 00"00It looks like a bunch of old people decided to get together one day to build a city, got tired of doing so about halfway through and figured what they had was already good enough." 00 02br
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00It is no doubt that the city is a completed and flourishing one. But the inhabitant there has no intention to make it more pr

Cut off at the knees means to suddenly and thoroughly humiliate or squelch

I believe in the old days your sword in order to carry in public has to be above your knees to be considered a defensive weapon. If it went past your knees it would be considered an offensive weapon and thus confiscated.

English translation: to stop someone being able to do something

it is a saying that means to figurativly incapicitate someone from doing something that would opose what utrying to do and when they opose u any more to follow through with what u wanted to do.

"cut someone off at the knees" is an idiom; it means "to stop someone from making progress"

Tom