meek as a lamb
meek as a lamb
Exceptionally patient, humble, and mild in manner or spirit. Despite his hulking, imposing appearance, the huge athlete is as meek as a lamb when you speak to him in person.
See also: lamb, meek
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*meek as a lamb
[of someone] shy, quiet, and docile. (*Also: as ~.) Only an hour after their argument, Joe went to Elizabeth and, meek as a lamb, asked her to forgive him. Betsy terrorizes the other children, but she's as meek as a lamb around her elders.
See also: lamb, meek
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- meek
- meek as Moses
- a whale of a
- (as) quiet as a lamb
- quiet as a lamb
- hat in hand
- (with) hat in hand
- Mary Sue
- in the slow lane
- bruiser