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knuckle under (third-person singular simple present knuckles under, present participle knuckling under, simple past and past participle knuckled under)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To yield or cooperate when pressured or forced to do so.
1907, John Galsworthy, chapter 8, in The Country House:"Nothing shall induce me!" he said. . . . "The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!"
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