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knuckle under

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knuckle under (to someone/something)

to accept unwillingly what someone or something demands. We want to reach an agreement, but we won't knuckle under to their demands.

Related vocabulary: give in (to someone/something)

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We had to knuckle under the whole of the time, to the civil authorities. The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context More results

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