buckle down
(intr, adverb) informal to apply oneself with determination: to buckle down to a job
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How to use buckle down in a sentence
In March 2014, he decided to buckle down, eat better and exercise regularly.
College Football Fattens Players Up and Then Abandons Them | Evin Demirel | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut winning football teams just buckle down, slowly take control, and—above all else—fight.
It’s Time for Obama to Go on Offense on Health Care | Michael Tomasky | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTResults also come more slowly because detainees buckle down and resist.
After decades of pushing kids to buckle down and learn more at ever-younger ages, we haven't gotten very far.
He is having a grand time at Crompton, and I'm going to help him a while, and then buckle down to hard work in the office.
The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes
Sheer desire to accomplish had driven him at first; with the coming of the boys, he had to buckle down for their sakes.
Mountain | Clement WoodBut when your job happens to be war work too—well, you just buckle down to it extra hard.
The Camerons of Highboro | Beth B. GilchristWas it really worth while, he wondered, "to buckle down" and learn to read?
Jewel's Story Book | Clara Louise BurnhamThis was soon gone, and then Mrs. Vernon said they must buckle down to genuine camp life.
Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks | Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Other Idioms and Phrases with buckle down
Set to work, apply oneself with determination, as in All right, we'll buckle down now and study for exams. Originating about 1700 as buckle to, the expression gained currency with the football song “Buckle-Down, Winsocki” (from the Broadway musical comedy Best Foot Forward, 1941). [Mid-1800s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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