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phrase [VERB inflects]If someone bows to the inevitable and does something that they do not want to do, they do it, because circumstances force them to do it. He bowed to the inevitable and announced that he was willing to resume diplomaticrelations. See full dictionary entry for bowExamples of 'bow to the inevitable' in a sentencebow to the inevitable But the skipper will sacrifice his country for his club and bow to the inevitable before long.Still, with yet more change coming, you may have to bow to the inevitable, but in a considerably more pleasing guise.Bow to the inevitable, he urges.But even with her flourishing career she accepts she may eventually have to bow to the inevitable.The greatest can conjure this trick longer than the rest, but even they must ultimately bow to the inevitable.Now private-equity executives at the biggest buyout firms are showing signs that they are prepared to bow to the inevitable.Bowing to the inevitable, he did not run for a fifth term in 1998.In 2011, she bowed to the inevitable and retired.Bowing to the inevitable he quit parliament. |