"buckle down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-buckle down.ogg [Australia] Forms: buckles down [present, singular, third-person], buckling down [participle, present], buckled down [participle, past], buckled down [past]
Etymology: From buckle + down. Etymology templates: {{m|en|buckle#Etymology 1}} buckle, {{m|en|down}} down Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} buckle down (third-person singular simple present buckles down, present participle buckling down, simple past and past participle buckled down)
  1. (intransitive, originally US, idiomatic) To apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: buckle to Related terms: buckle to, buckle up, hunker down, knuckle down Translations (to apply oneself to study, or a task or work): se concentrer (French), mettersi sotto a (Italian), przykładać się [imperfective] (Polish), przyłożyć się [perfective] (Polish), przysiąść sadła [imperfective] (Polish), заня́ться (zanjátʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), lägga manken till (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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