belt and suspenders

Or belt-and-sus·pend·ers

[belt uhn suh-spen-derz]

adjective

Chiefly U.S. and Canada

1. relating to or using two or more measures to ensure success.

   We took a belt and suspenders approach to backing up the data and had backups in several places.

Example Sentences

So, inferentially, what she’s saying is, “I mean what I say, your administration can’t ignore it as you appear to have done with federal Judge James Boasberg, whose order you appear to have defied to return immigrants you deported. I’m going to do belt and suspenders and be very clear about this and not give you wiggle room because it is not an option for you to disobey the order of an Article 3 judge.”

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Getting a second opinion may sound like a sensible “belt and suspenders” sort of approach to take when making a serious decision like overturning a conviction, but the reality is much more complicated.

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“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.

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“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.

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“We thought it was appropriate to do ‘belt and suspenders’ — a double protection,” he said.

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