knee-mail

knee-mail

A prayer. (A play on "e-mail.") Our minister is trying to show the younger members of the congregation the value of putting their phones away and sending knee-mail instead. I find that knee-mail helps me find my way whenever I feel unsure of myself or what to do next.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

knee-mail

n. prayer. (A message delivered on one’s knees.) You’d better be sending some knee-mail on this problem.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • prayer bones
  • prayerbones
  • at (one's) mother's knee
  • at (one's) knee
  • on a wing and a prayer
  • fall on (one's) knees
  • fall on knees
  • fall to (one's) knees
  • ain't it the truth
  • Ain't it the truth?
References in periodicals archive
God answers knee-mail. He is only a prayer away," Rogers said.
OUTSIDE a church in Weymouth, Dorset: "Why not send a knee-mail to God?"