Break down, literally or metaphorically.
The sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it.
1 The Israeli government doesn't want to be seen to cave in immediately.
2 THE Hermit lived in a cave in the hollow of a hill.
3 That means fewer air pockets are left when mud-brick houses cave in .
4 I could stand --in the entrance to the cave in --.
5 I was sure walls would start to cave in at any moment.
6 The mentioning of a cave in the mountains made Pawnee Brown curious.
7 I expect we'll only need one small demonstration and they'll cave in .
8 Meanwhile, Bogle had rushed across the cave in quest of a weapon.
9 Prescott and Holmes had shown as yet no signs of cave in .
10 His chest seemed to cave in in the grip of the water.
11 Or did something else happen to her in that cave in Australia?
12 There is, somewhere hereabouts, a cave in which smuggled goods are stored.
13 Why should he cave in and the others of us keep up?
14 My old injines are feelin' about fur an excuse to cave in .
15 Her cave in Switzerland is a childhood memory which I revisit regularly.
16 And when industries become top-heavy and wasteful, they cave in or self-destruct.
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Это словосочетание состоит из: Cave in в диалектах
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