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knuckle down

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  • verb intransitive, chiefly UK, idiomatic To get to work; to focus on a task.

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  • verb work very hard, like a slave

Etymologies

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1864 in American English, from the game of marbles.

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synonyms (30)

Words with the same meaning

  1. accede
  2. accept
  3. acquiesce
  4. assent
  5. be agreeable
  6. buckle down
  7. comply
  8. consent
  9. endeavor
  10. face the music
  11. go all out
  12. go along with
  13. hump
  14. hump it
  15. knock under
  16. knuckle under
  17. lay to
  18. live with it
  19. not resist
  20. obey
  21. ply the oar
  22. relent
  23. resign
  24. spare no effort
  25. submit
  26. succumb
  27. swallow it
  28. swallow the pill
  29. take
  30. take it

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. do work
  2. work

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. buckle down
  2. hunker down

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