buckle under

“Entire towns like Aurora, Colo., and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump said Tuesday.

But actually, the concerns around buckling under pressure and lack of leadership have existed for far longer than that, and this Ashes series has seen England put under a microscope of scrutiny like never before.

Mbappe was always too intelligent, too talented and too precocious to fail, or buckle under the pressure, at Real Madrid.

He stayed focused on Thursday as his opponent, the defending champion Ding, appeared to buckle under the pressure.

When England were knocked out of the T20 World Cup in October, they buckled under the weight of expectation and head coach Jon Lewis cited the need for more pressure situations during their bilateral series.