Do we say knuckle under or knuckle down

knuckle under 5 occurrences

"Supposing," Rees suggested, "we were induced to knuckle under, to become the victims of your damned blackmailing scheme, surely then one of us would be allowed to go down to the City on parole, eh?" Wingate shook his head.

They was all hell-benders who had ridden the range alone and had their share of fights and killings, which there wasn't one of 'em that wouldn't have been good enough to go leader in any other crew, but they had to knuckle under to old Piotto.

It's like a mob or a riot; the scamps have things their own way at first, but they knuckle under in the end.

If I walked away from the house to get rid of them, they would follow and hoot at me; and when I reproved them they informed me they were not going "to knuckle under to old Melvyn's darter, the damnedest fool in the world, who's lost all his prawperty, and has to borry money off of pa.

So I had to knuckle under.

knuckle down 8 occurrences

These men who have fought so nobly for their land, and who have tasted, even under the most trying conditions, something of the largeness and gladness of a free open-air life, will, I hope, refuse to knuckle down again to the old commercialism.

The fellows that train with me have been up against hard knocks too often to knuckle down before a lot of bluster and brag.

Only a few years ago, every shearing shed had at least one minstrel who could drone out the refrain of a shearing song But, oh, boys, such sheep I never shore, As those that made us knuckle down at Goorianawa

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.

I expect they'll both be fallin' over theirselves to knuckle down to each other from now on!

" "I bet she won't make me knuckle down to her,

he Hed gut a kind o' mortgage on the sea; You'd thought he held by Gran'ther Adam's will, An' ef you knuckle down, he'll think so still.

Why," sez he, lookin' more and more big feelin' as he went on, as why shouldn't he, as he recounted men's glorious advantages, "Nate Flanders, who is most a fool, can vote and make you knuckle down and do as he tells you to.

Do we say   knuckle under   or  knuckle down