grab one's ankles

Verb

grab one's ankles (third-person singular simple present grabs one's ankles, present participle grabbing one's ankles, simple past and past participle grabbed one's ankles)

1. to submit
   • Dr. Collier makes it absolutely clear that any reluctance on my part to participate in any part of this plan will result in the immediate termination of my employment at University—a black mark beyond black marks. My surgical career would be over. What else can I do but bend over, grab my ankles...2014, Kelly Parsons, Doing Harm: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN
   • “Over the years, there've been four campaigns, letter writing and lobbying the secretary of the Navy and so on, to get a ship named after his grandfather, and two to have the charges against his father reversed. The general himself isn't connected to any of them, because that would be...2009, David DeBatto, Pete Nelson, CI: Dark Target: An Army Counterintelligence Novel, Hachette UK, →ISBN