buckling to
Caving under pressure
Buckling to means yielding or submitting to pressure, authority, or demands.
Someone who buckles to external force gives in rather than continuing to resist: She refused to buckle to their intimidation tactics, The company finally buckled to public pressure and changed its policy.
The phrase suggests capitulation after some initial resistance.
- caving inCollapsing or surrendering
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
- knuckling underYielding to demands
- conformityAdherence to norms
subservience · collapse · crumpling · vulnerability · weak in the knees · peer pressure · social pressure · under pressure · obedience · warping · surrender · deformation · coercion · submission · strain · yielding · bending · authority
buckling toresisting
Actively opposing pressure
defying · standing up to · withstanding · opposing · braving
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