trick knee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They are like a trick knee, a bad back, an irritable bowel, or tennis elbow.
From Time ● Aug. 26, 2014
Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble with the other dolls at the trick knee of the Rumanian defector Bela Karolyi.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he quickly finds he has a trick knee, a fed-up wife and a bad threat to his job.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he made his way toward his chair, he drily noted, “My trick knee is warning me that we might have some rain. So prepare yourselves.”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
Later, with a trick knee keeping me out of the war, I managed to talk myself into a job with the newspaper that had run my expose.
From The Scapegoat by Maples, Richard
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