Buckle Under (Verb)
Meaning
Consent reluctantly.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- She eventually buckled under the pressure of her parents' constant demands and agreed to marry a man she didn't love.
- The small town was forced to buckle under the might of the large corporation that bought out the local businesses.
- The exhausted athlete buckled under the intense training regimen and reluctantly agreed to take a break.
- After days of interrogation, the suspect finally buckled under and confessed to the crime.
- The local government buckled under the international community's pressure to change its stance on human rights.