climb down
UK— phrasal verb with climb uk/klaɪm/us/klaɪm/verb
to change your opinion or admit that you were wrong:
The government has been forced to climb down over the issue of increased taxes.
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Changing your mind
- 180
- about-turn
- back away
- back out
- backpedal
- change of heart idiom
- change your tune idiom
- climbdown
- cold
- come round
- move
- oscillate
- pendulum
- pull
- pull (sb/sth) out
- realign
- think better of sth idiom
- time-server
- U-turn
- volte-face
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