DYK: Did you know?
Knuckle under means to give way or submit. The word knuckle in the 18th century, was used used to mean ‘acknowledge oneself beaten; submit to another’s authority’
Dyche and Pardon, in their A dictionary of all the words commonly us’d in the English tongue, 1740, defined ‘knuckle’ like this:
“Knuckle or knuckle down: to stoop, bend, yield, comply with, or submit to.
‘Knuckle under’ was later coined in the USA, also with the same meaning.
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