Complete Definition of "knuckle down"

English

Etymology
1864 in American English, from the game of marbles.

Verb
knuckle down

  1. context|mainly|UK idiom To get to work; to focus on a task

#: You'd better knuckle down and do your homework!

See also
hunker down
buckle down

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