buckle under

The Spaniard escaped injury as she buckled under Packer's weight and the England flanker was immediately apologetic.

Other soldiers we met also spoke of broken relationships and marriages that have buckled under the strain.

BBC Panorama spent months in South Yorkshire meeting people already changing how they work, to see what it will take to fix a health service which is buckling under increasing demand.

The biscuit began to buckle under the weight of its own layers, the folds getting too heavy, too thin.

The knee ligament injury he suffered against Ireland, buckling under Beirne's weight at the breakdown, reminded us of his mortality.