belt and suspenders
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024
“You want all the belt and suspenders that you can have,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which litigated Dobbs v.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2022
It’s kind of like wearing both a belt and suspenders, and still having your pants fall down around your ankles.
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019
Neat, I thought, but I was severely ridiculed for wearing both belt and suspenders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2018
When one of your clients drops in, in the goodness of his heart, to give you his own definition of a pessimist—a pessimist, he says, is a man who wears both belt and suspenders.
From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher
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