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knuckle under

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knuckle under (to someone or something)
to submit to someone or something; to yield or give in to someone or something. You have to knuckle under to your boss if you expect to keep your job. I'm too stubborn to knuckle under.
See also: knuckle

knuckle under (to somebody/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 somebody/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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