"grab one's ankles" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grabs one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grabbing one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grabbed one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grabbed one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Kelly Parsons, Doing Harm: A Novel, St. Martin's Press",
          "text": "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, and take it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, David DeBatto, Pete Nelson, CI: Dark Target: An Army Counterintelligence Novel, Hachette UK",
          "text": "“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 unseemly—you're supposed to grab your ankles and take it like a man—but if you dig a little deeper, you find they were all started by guys Koenig went to prep school with.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jon Konrath, Air in the Paragraph Line #12, Lulu.com, page 19",
          "text": "“No, I don't watch football.” “Is your TV broke, or are you some kind of Communist ? I mean, I know they bent over, grabbed their ankles, and took it from FedEx when they moved to Maryland, but come on — it's the Redskins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to submit"
      ],
      "id": "en-grab_one's_ankles-en-verb-e3DhC1wg",
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bend over"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grab one's ankles"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grabs one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grabbing one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grabbed one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grabbed one's ankles",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bend over"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Kelly Parsons, Doing Harm: A Novel, St. Martin's Press",
          "text": "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, and take it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, David DeBatto, Pete Nelson, CI: Dark Target: An Army Counterintelligence Novel, Hachette UK",
          "text": "“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 unseemly—you're supposed to grab your ankles and take it like a man—but if you dig a little deeper, you find they were all started by guys Koenig went to prep school with.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jon Konrath, Air in the Paragraph Line #12, Lulu.com, page 19",
          "text": "“No, I don't watch football.” “Is your TV broke, or are you some kind of Communist ? I mean, I know they bent over, grabbed their ankles, and took it from FedEx when they moved to Maryland, but come on — it's the Redskins.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to submit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grab one's ankles"
}