英语词汇“climb down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

climb down

phrasal verb

If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.

If Lafontaine is forced to climb down, he may wish to reconsider his position. [VERB PARTICLE]

He has climbed down on pledges to reduce capital gains tax. [V P + on/over]

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climb-down

also climbdown

Word forms: climb-downs

countable noun

A climb-down in an argument or dispute is the act of admitting that you are wrong or of changing your intentions or demands.

The government was forced into a humiliating climb-down.

单词	climb down
释义	climb down phrasal verb If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands. If Lafontaine is forced to climb down, he may wish to reconsider his position. [VERB PARTICLE] He has climbed down on pledges to reduce capital gains tax. [V P + on/over] See full dictionary entry for climb climb-down also climbdown Word forms: climb-downs countable noun A climb-down in an argument or dispute is the act of admitting that you are wrong or of changing your intentions or demands. The government was forced into a humiliating climb-down.
随便看	to run the gauntlet to run to seed to run wild Tory to sail close to the wind to save face to save one's life to save someone's bacon to save the day to say nothing of to say the least to sb's credit to sb's defence to sb's defense to sb's disadvantage to sb's face to sb's liking to scale to scrape a living to scrape the barrel to scrape the bottom of the barrel to sea to seal someone's fate to sea/out to sea to see eye to eye