prayer bones

prayer bones

One's knees, as it is most common to prayer while kneeling. Sometimes written as one word. I was down on my prayer bones all night asking God for advice on what to do. Church has always been a regular fixture of this community, getting together each Sunday and getting down on our prayer bones together.
See also: bone, prayer
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

prayerbones

n. the knees. He pushed one of his prayerbones into my gut.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • prayerbones
  • on a wing and a prayer
  • the still small voice
  • the still, small voice
  • mark, learn, and inwardly digest
  • ash
  • ashes to ashes, dust to dust
  • pray for
  • on (one's) hands and knees
  • on your hands and knees
References in periodicals archive
Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Exploring the intertwined practices of prayer, faith, and healing, Blanton attends to that particular sound of the sacred produced through "hittn' the prayer bones," a violent dropping to the knees before prayer, among Pentecostal Christians in southern Appalachia.
Hittin' the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South