buckle up

Idioms and Phrases

Fasten a seat belt, as in All the children must learn to buckle up as soon as they get in a car . This term came into wide use in the second half of the 1900s, when seat belts became mandatory automobile equipment. Earlier they had been used mainly in airplanes.

Example Sentences

It's like the anxiety you feelabout flying through the windshield of your car that makes you buckle up.

From The Daily Beast

He's got to spit on his hands and buckle up his belt two holes tighter yet.

From Project Gutenberg

Peter suited the action to his words, and moved the tongue of his buckle up two holes.

From Project Gutenberg

Watch the deck crawl till sometimes the deck-plates buckle up into V-shaped ridges!

From Project Gutenberg

Is this job very tiring, for if it is, I doubt I may buckle up.'

From Project Gutenberg