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What does knuckle down mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain, idiomatic) To get to work; to focus on a task.
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Can we tighten our belts, knuckle down and use that knowledge that our forefathers and mothers gave us?
They are better at pacing themselves and tend to knuckle down to the homework throughout the course.
How can a child left to direct their own education possibly knuckle down to hard work and fulfil their potential?
If the royals knuckle down to their laptops now, within months they could be entirely self-funding.
That would mean I'd have to knuckle down, and crawl before the mighty Fred Fenton, like some of the other ninnies do.
Whether it ends up taking bail-out money or not, it needs to knuckle down to painful reforms if it is to thrive within this club.

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