buckle up

1. 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

But I have more to say, so buckle up.

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"They wasn't buckled up," Dowdle said of a Dallas team that let him depart as a free agent after last season.

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“Then, buckle up and slap on some Oakleys, big boy. Welcome to ICE.”

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Noem asked, “buckle up and slap on some Oakleys, big boy, and welcome to ICE!”

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Now, buckle up and let’s roll the montage of old postcards, weathered neon signs and swooping Googie rooflines, then zoom to the spot where motel history began.

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