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.
See also:
  • 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
References in periodicals archive
'Is this the reason why the administration is as meek as a lamb while our sovereignty is being threatened by China in the West Philippine Sea?' Pangilinan said.
My husband stood there meek as a lamb. I felt myself go bright red and felt worthless next to our friends.
FEISTY THEN MEEK -- After a feisty President Aquino faced the press in Rome, Italy, to shoot barbs at presidential candidates challenging his Liberal Party bet, Mar Roxas, he appears meek as a lamb before Pope Francis on Friday.
Arslan criticized the stances of some Arab countries towards Syria, decrying their attempts to convince the international public opinion that Iran is an enemy and that Israel is as meek as a lamb.
President Digong could be meek as a lamb, so to say, before either the Ilocos Norte governor or the famous show biz celebrity.
And he also rubbished claims that Sir Sean is a hothead, saying the film legend was as "meek as a lamb" during fittings.
But against those with enough grit to stand toe-to-toe with him, he can be low-key, if not mute and meek as a lamb.