| 单词 | knuckle down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknuckle down 1. intransitive. To place one's knuckles upon the ground in shooting or casting the taw in playing at marbles; see sense 4. Usually knuckle down. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > children's ball games [verb (intransitive)] > actions knuckle1735 taw1863 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Knuckle or Knuckle down,..is a particular Phrase used by Lads at a Play called Taw, wherein they frequently say, Knuckle down to your Taw, or fix your Hand exactly in the Place where your Marble lies. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 307 As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw. View more context for this quotation 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 188 A something-pottle-bodied boy, That knuckled at the taw. knuckle down a. intransitive (figurative) To acknowledge oneself beaten; to give way, give in, submit. Usually knuckle down or knuckle under. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in benda1400 sink?a1513 to give over1530 to cry creak?1562 yield1576 to hold up1596 succumb1604 to give in1616 to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629 to cry cravena1634 to give up or cross the cudgels1654 incumb1656 to fall in1667 to knock under1670 to knock under board, under (the) table1692 to strike underc1730 knuckle down1735 to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860 chuck up (the sponge)1864 to throw in one's hand1893 to sky the wipe (or towel)1907 to drop one's bundle1915 to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915 to buckle up1927 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)] > give in descend?a1400 to give up the girdlea1400 submita1525 to give over1530 subscribe1560 yield1576 come1607 to give in1616 to give the stoop1623 buckle1642 incumb1656 to knock under board, under (the) table1692 capitulate1714 to strike underc1730 knuckle down1735 cave1844 to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860 incline1866 to give (it) best1878 give way1879 to roll over1919 society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > submit [verb (intransitive)] onboweOE bowa1000 abeyc1300 yielda1330 loutc1330 couchc1386 to come to a person's mercy?a1400 to do (also put) oneself in (also to) a person's mercya1400 hielda1400 underlouta1400 foldc1400 to come (also to put oneself) in a person's willc1405 subjectc1475 defer1479 avale1484 to come in1485 submita1525 submita1525 stoop1530 subscribe1556 compromit1590 warpa1592 to yield (also bow oneself) to (also upon) mercy1595 to come in will to a person1596 lead1607 knuckle1735 snool1786 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Knuckle or Knuckle down, to stoop, bend, yield, comply with, or submit to. 1791 J. Wolcot Remonstr. 73 I knuckle not—I owe not to the great A thimble-full of obligation. 1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 237 He had to knuckle and comply in all points. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. iv. 63 They must all knuckle under to him. 1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 2 Nov. 12/3 He would not knuckle down under the attacks of the Land League. 1955 Times 19 May 15/4 He replied that there was no power on earth to make a local party accept a candidate. He was rather sorry they knuckled under to Transport House in this division. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 10 Britain, he said, had ‘knuckled under’ to threats of African violence, but there was little he could constitutionally do about it. 1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1444/1 Now the last group of any size..has knuckled under following a series of splits and coups. < as lemmas |
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