knuckle under
Verb
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Verb
knuckle under
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To yield or cooperate when pressured or forced to do so.
- 1907, John Galsworthy, The Country House, ch. 8:
- "Nothing shall induce me!" he said. . . . "The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!"
- 1907, John Galsworthy, The Country House, ch. 8:
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