knuckle under
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[edit]knuckle under (third-person singular simple present knuckles under, present participle knuckling under, simple past and past participle knuckled under)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To yield or cooperate when pressured or forced to do so.
- 1907, John Galsworthy, chapter 8, in The Country House:
- "Nothing shall induce me!" he said. . . . "The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!"
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[edit]- “knuckle under”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.