"Knuckle under to" nghĩa là gì?

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"Knuckle under to (someone or something)" nghĩa là đầu hàng, chịu khuất phục.

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If you knuckle under to Dear Old Dad's demands, you are making a big mistake.

And yet, still the sanctions (lệnh trừng phạt) appear light on. The onus (nhiệm vụ) is on all of us to knuckle under, and mostly we've complied (tuân theo)

Many liberal Jews (người Do thái) believe that it is not only their right, but their duty, to lobby (vận động hành lang) Washington to "save Israel from itself" by using every lever (đòn bẩy) of power, including withholding (từ chối) US aid, to force Jerusalem to knuckle under to their demands.

The playbook for beating the NCAA is plain to see in the examples set by Kansas/LSU – cheat, deny, fight. Louisville’s mistake was to knuckle under by trying to do the right thing. They didn’t want the reputation (danh tiếng) of their city’s university sullied (ô nhục) by the actions of Pitino and Jurich, so both were canned (bị đuổi).

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