Usually means: Focus seriously on a task.
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  1. knuckle down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  3. knuckle down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  7. knuckle down: Wiktionary
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  10. knuckle down: Rhymezone
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Definitions from Wiktionary (knuckle down)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To get to work; to focus on a task.
▸ verb:  To submit; knuckle under.

Similar:
buckle down, slave, knuckle up, roll up one's sleeves, dig in, work one's fingers to the bone, boss up, grind, grit one's teeth, knuckle under, more...

Opposite:
procrastinate, slack off, loaf, dawdle, dilly-dally

Types:
buckle down, hunker down, tough it out, dig in, hang in there, more...

Adjectives:
try, dree, own, lean, go, outland, apply, best, goan, lay, laydown

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Similar:
buckle down, slave, knuckle up, roll up one's sleeves, dig in, work one's fingers to the bone, boss up, grind, grit one's teeth, knuckle under, more...

Opposite:
procrastinate, slack off, loaf, dawdle, dilly-dally

Types:
buckle down, hunker down, tough it out, dig in, hang in there, more...

Adjectives:
try, dree, own, lean, go, outland, apply, best, goan, lay, laydown



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