bend the knee
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bend the knee (third-person singular simple present bends the knee, present participle bending the knee, simple past and past participle bent the knee)
- (idiomatic) To submit to another's authority.
- 2012, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, “The North Remembers”, in Game of Thrones, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane):
- Joffrey, Renly, Robb Stark: they're all thieves. They'll bend the knee or I'll destroy them.
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submit to another's authority