knuckle under
English
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Pronunciation
Verb
knuckle under (third-person singular simple present knuckles under, present participle knuckling under, simple past and past participle knuckled under)Category:English lemmas#KNUCKLEUNDERCategory:English verbs#KNUCKLEUNDERCategory:English phrasal verbs#KNUCKLEUNDERCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22under%22#KNUCKLEUNDERCategory:English multiword terms#KNUCKLEUNDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#KNUCKLEUNDERCategory:Pages with entries#KNUCKLE%20UNDERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#KNUCKLE%20UNDER
- (idiomaticCategory:English idioms#KNUCKLEUNDER, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#KNUCKLEUNDER) To cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so.
- Synonym: fall in line
- 1907, John Galsworthy, “Acute Attack of—‘Pendycitis’”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part III, page 286:
- The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!Category:English terms with quotations#KNUCKLEUNDER
Translations
to cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so
References
- “knuckle under”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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