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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)
See also: knuckle

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We had to knuckle under the whole of the time, to the civil authorities.
 
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