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buckle under
Idioms and Phrases
Give way, collapse owing to stress, as in One more heavy snowfall and the roof may buckle under , or She buckled under the strain of two jobs . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
BBC Panorama spent months in South Yorkshire meeting people already changing how they work, to see what it will take to fix a health service which is buckling under increasing demand.
The biscuit began to buckle under the weight of its own layers, the folds getting too heavy, too thin.
The knee ligament injury he suffered against Ireland, buckling under Beirne's weight at the breakdown, reminded us of his mortality.
“Entire towns like Aurora, Colo., and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody’s ever seen before,†Trump said Tuesday.
But actually, the concerns around buckling under pressure and lack of leadership have existed for far longer than that, and this Ashes series has seen England put under a microscope of scrutiny like never before.
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