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{
"etymology_text": "Likely a Hebraism, often used in the King James Bible (e.g., 2 Kings 4:29). Literally referred to the need to strap a belt around one's waist, i.e. when getting up, in order to avoid the cloak falling off; or otherwise before battle, to unimpede the legs for running.",
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{
"form": "girt up one's loins",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1857, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in The Confidence Man",
"text": "Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 9, in Rilla of Ingleside",
"text": "Then Susan said briskly, \"Well, we must just gird up our loins and pitch in.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, \"Editorial,\" nepalnews.com (Nepal), vol. 24, no. 6 (Aug 3-19)",
"text": "King Gyanendra must gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies."
}
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"To prepare oneself for something demanding."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, intransitive) To prepare oneself for something demanding."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "batten down the hatches"
},
{
"word": "tighten one's belt"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brace oneself"
},
{
"word": "eat one's Wheaties"
},
{
"word": "roll up one's sleeves"
},
{
"word": "shape up"
},
{
"word": "steel oneself"
},
{
"word": "suck it up"
},
{
"word": "gird one's loins"
},
{
"word": "girdle one's loins"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "felköti a nadrágszíjat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "felköti a gatyát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "nekigyürkőzik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "nekikészül"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "összeszedi magát"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "szykować się"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perepojásatʹ črésla",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "перепоя́сать чре́сла"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "omgjorda sina länder"
}
]
}
],
"word": "gird up one's loins"
}
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"etymology_text": "Likely a Hebraism, often used in the King James Bible (e.g., 2 Kings 4:29). Literally referred to the need to strap a belt around one's waist, i.e. when getting up, in order to avoid the cloak falling off; or otherwise before battle, to unimpede the legs for running.",
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{
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{
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],
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"word": "tighten one's belt"
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"ref": "1857, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in The Confidence Man",
"text": "Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 9, in Rilla of Ingleside",
"text": "Then Susan said briskly, \"Well, we must just gird up our loins and pitch in.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, \"Editorial,\" nepalnews.com (Nepal), vol. 24, no. 6 (Aug 3-19)",
"text": "King Gyanendra must gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies."
}
],
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"To prepare oneself for something demanding."
],
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],
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"(idiomatic, intransitive) To prepare oneself for something demanding."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brace oneself"
},
{
"word": "eat one's Wheaties"
},
{
"word": "roll up one's sleeves"
},
{
"word": "shape up"
},
{
"word": "steel oneself"
},
{
"word": "suck it up"
}
],
"tags": [
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"intransitive"
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gird one's loins"
},
{
"word": "girdle one's loins"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "felköti a nadrágszíjat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "felköti a gatyát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "nekigyürkőzik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "nekikészül"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "összeszedi magát"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "szykować się"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perepojásatʹ črésla",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "перепоя́сать чре́сла"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to prepare oneself for something demanding",
"word": "omgjorda sina länder"
}
],
"word": "gird up one's loins"
}
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