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Knuckle down   /nˈəkəl daʊn/   Listen
Knuckle down

verb
1.
Work very hard, like a slave.  Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, slave.





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"Knuckle down" Quotes from Famous Books



... she goin' to turn you out o' your own daughter's home? Wa'n't that what I turned her out fer? I didn't turn her out, anyhow! I only told Orville this house wa'n't big enough fer his mother an' me, an' that neither o' us 'u'd knuckle down, so he'd best take his choice. You'd ought ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
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... Steinway of strange mischief and mischance; I'm the Stradivarius of blank defeat; In the down-world, when the devil leads the dance, I am simply and symbolically meet; I'm the irrepressive spirit of mankind; I'm the small boy playing knuckle down with Death; At the end of all things known, where God's rubbish-heap is thrown, I shrill impudent triumph ...
— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service
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Words linked to "Knuckle down" :   slave, work, do work


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