knuckle down

Speech parts

1. knuckle down - Verb

2. knuckle down - Phrase

Meaning

work very hard, like a slave

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

slave buckle down break one's back labour sweat toil hustle shape up plug away peg away beaver away burn the candle at both ends work hard apply oneself slave away
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Antonyms

rest pause take a breather take five take a break kill time
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Hypernyms

work do work

Examples

I think I'm done gunnin to get closer. To some imagined bliss. I gotta knuckle down. And just be ok with this. Ani DiFranco

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them. Paul Ince

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. Carlos Santana

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away. Julian Bond

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father. Toby Young

He preferred to knuckle down to preparations for the assignment at hand and his new status in life. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

knuckle down

Close letter words and terms

knuckle bump knuckle busters knuckle children knuckle dragger knuckle duster knuckle dusters