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Knuckle under   Listen
verb
knuckle under  v. i.  To yield; to submit; usually used with to.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Knuckle under" Quotes from Famous Books



... the old, bad ways. Capital's always pulling against labour and would get back its evil mastery to-morrow if it could. So we need to keep awake, to see we don't lose what we've won, but add to it. Now here's a man that's a servant by instinct, and it's in his blood to knuckle under." ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts



Words linked to "Knuckle under" :   buckle under, accede, consent, give in, accept, defer, yield, submit



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