knuckle under
Example Sentences
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Early on in Rochester, for example, a “Dutch servant-girl rapped with her knuckles under the floor from the cellar.”
From Literature
“Those tools are expensive when applied to you even if we don’t win at the end of the day, so knuckle under.”
People call New York a cesspool, but New Yorkers would never knuckle under to intolerance and let some lowlife get away with drawing swastikas.
From Literature
California-based chains considered their customers and their markets; they did not have to knuckle under to the marketing dictates of a distant headquarters.
From Los Angeles Times
Each, as it turned out, expected the other to knuckle under.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
