meek as a lamb



*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

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Aristotelis-Greek
Deo-Indian, Hindi
KoosKO:SDutch
EdvardED-vahrd (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Slovene, Czech, Armenian
StefciaSTEF-chahPolish
Zehra-Turkish