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†P1. belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers): a certain number of Our Fathers recited consecutively as a devotion; a studded belt, string of beads, or similar item used for keeping count when reciting this set of prayers. historical. Obsolete. [This use originated as a mistranslation by H. Spelman (see quot. 1664) of the passage in quot. OE, in which Old English æt VII beltidum , lit. ‘at the seven bell-times’, is apparently intended to gloss post-classical Latin canonicis horis , lit. ‘at the canonical hours’. In what N.E.D. (1887) described as ‘one of the most grotesque blunders on record’, Spelman misinterpreted Old English beltīdum (dative plural of beltīd canonical hour (marked by the ringing of a bell), lit. ‘bell-time’; < bell n.¹ + tide n.) as a Latin inflection of a putative word related to belt n.¹, and construed it with the following Pater Noster as ‘a paternoster of seven belts’, which he explained as a rosary.]

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society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > the Lord's Prayer > repetition of > frequent

belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers)1720

OE Acts Council of Chelsea in A. W. Haddan & W. Stubbs Councils & Eccl. Documents (1871) III. 584 Et xxx diebus canonicis horis expleto synaxeos æt vii beltidum Pater Noster pro eo cantetur.

1664 H. Spelman Glossarium 79/1 Beltis,... Rosarium.]

1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. sig. Q3 When the Canonical Hours are finish'd.., let seven Belts of Pater-Nosters also, be sung for him. [Note] VII Beltidum Pater Noster: This seems to imply, that they had, in this Age, a certain Number of Studs fastened into their Belts, or Girdles, which were then us'd..for the numbring of their Prayers.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 69 The frequent repetition of the Lord's prayer, technically called a belt of Pater-nosters. [Note] A belt of Pater-nosters appears to correspond with a string of beads of later times... It is probable that the belt contained fifty Pater-nosters.

1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. i. viii. 8 After the canonical hours of the public service were over, seven ‘belts’ of Our Fathers had to be sung for the deceased.

1899 Reliquary Jan. 102 According to the evidence afforded by the wills and testamentary dispositions of the times the common English name for the beads was a ‘pair a beads,’ or a ‘belt of paternosters.’

P2. colloquial. under one's (also the) belt.

a. Of food or drink, esp. alcohol: swallowed, consumed; in one's stomach.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [adverb]

stomachically1684

under one's (also the) belt1771

intragastrically1959

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 122 He was carried home with six good bottles of claret under his belt.

1839 Spirit of Times 21 Dec. 498/3 Away we went, each bearing, under his belt, his full share of the antifogmatical..compound.

1882 Washington Post 25 July [He] goes out and puts another quart of whisky under his belt, and, going home, he falls off his horse.

1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 45 A man working as hard as they were couldn't be expected to keep going without a feed under his belt.

1965 R. Jeffries Dead against Lawyers vii. 69 Two whiskies under the belt are better than one.

2002 R. Rankin Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Apocalypse xxiii. 256 You'd need a few stiff ones under your belt before you got going with saving the world.

b. Originally U.S. Safely or satisfactorily achieved, acquired, or experienced.In early use chiefly of racehorses or athletes.

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1898 Boston Globe 10 Oct. 9/1 Charley Herr was the favorite, but he had too many races under his belt to be on edge for this his richest engagement of the year.

1911 N.Y. Times 29 May 10/3 It is my idea that the Cornellian can, under the climatic and track conditions which prevailed last Saturday, and without a previous race under his belt, go to the tape in a half-mile race close to 1:51.

1920 E. Hemingway Let. 16 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 39 Dempsey..has never had a real fight yet, Geo. [= Georges Carpentier] has a pile of them under his belt.

1954 Manch. Guardian Weekly 12 Aug. 12 His wife had 135,000 miles driving in the States under her belt..but was still failed.

1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead v. 216 He wanted me to get plenty of Latin and Greek under the belt so that I could be like him.

2004 Media Week 4 May 19/6 It's good to get extra qualifications under your belt.

P3. to tighten (also pull in, draw in) one's belt.Cf. belt-tightener n. 2, belt-tightening n. 1, belt-tightening adj. 2.

a. To pull in one’s belt tightly when buckling or tying it and so compress the stomach, esp. as a means of staving off or bearing hunger pangs. Later also: figurative to stave off, bear, or put up with hunger pangs (sometimes with allusion to literally tightening the belt for this purpose).In later use sometimes overlapping with sense Phrases 3b.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > stave off hunger

to tighten one's belt1824

1824 L. M. Child Hobomok iv. 41 Corbitant, too, threw his quiver over his shoulder, and tightened his belt, as if preparing for a journey.

1841 Chartist Circular 27 Feb. 329/3 ‘The camels endure hunger longer than I have,’ said the tanner, ‘let me draw my girdle closer.’ He tightened his belt.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. 1 This pilgrim has tightened his belt to stave off the gnawing at his stomach.

1891 R. Kipling Amir's Homily in Life's Handicap 290 I also was once starved, and tightened my belt on the sharp belly-pinch.

1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 v. 46 They's three things that's good for famine... Yu can pull in your belt, yu can drink, an' yu can eat.

1919 H. W. Lanier in L. P. Powell Social Unrest II. i. 382 We in Italy are accustomed to rationing... If we cannot get what we need from America, we shall draw in our belts still tighter.

2009 R. C. Wilson Julian Comstock iv. iv. 277 Given our numbers, and the accounted supplies, Julian calculates that we'll be tightening our belts by mid-month, and thoroughly starved by December.

b. To reduce one's expenditure; to introduce (rigorous) economies; to economize.Now the main sense.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (intransitive)] > reduce expenditure

retrench1663

economize1780

to tighten one's belt1902

to draw in (also shrink, pluck, pull in) one's horns1920

1902 Sheffield Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 4/4 Year by year the War Office has tightened its belt and required more work from the body.

1944 Food for Thought Nov. 46/1 All of us have to pull in our belts to pay for the war.

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. (Late City Final ed.) a31/1 President Reagan made it clear from the start that Americans would have to tighten their belts and make sacrifices.

2014 London Evening Standard 9 Oct. (West End Final ed.) 56/2 [Housing] associations have tightened their belts, become a lot more efficient,..worked hard to develop alternative sources of finance.

P4. belt and braces (originally and chiefly British). Later also belt and suspenders (North American). Chiefly attributive.

a. Of an action, approach, etc.: that involves two or more precautionary measures or means to a desired end in order to decrease the likelihood of mishap; very or excessively cautious.

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1955 R. Macintosh & M. Ostlere Local Analgesia Head & Neck xvii. 131 On the ‘belt and braces’ principle additional injections can be made along the line of the individual nerves.

1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting (1965) vi. 187 Magnetic tape units and card input units are usually fitted with some type of ‘belt and braces’ service which reads the tape or the card twice and compares the results for quality.

1995 J. W. Bartlett Equity Finance (ed. 2) I. iv. 64 The ultimate ‘belt and suspenders’ approach includes the practice of executing a contract between the corporation and each director.

2002 Digital Photogr. made Easy No. 12. 64/4 Oddly, the manual is also on a CD, which seems a bit belt and braces.

b. Of a person: that habitually takes extra precautionary measures or employs more than one means to a desired end in order to decrease the likelihood of mishap; very or excessively cautious.

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1971 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 May 397/1 A pessimist may be a belt-and-braces man but an optimist is a Parliamentary candidate.

1997 M. Martin & T. Jackson Personnel Pract. viii. 137 Fire and sabotage can be covered by using a fireproof safe for back-ups or by an off-site back-up..at another location. If you are a ‘belt and braces’ person you will do both!

1998 R. Anderson in M. Powell God Off-Broadway Introd. p. ix I wanted to be a playwright. But, being a ‘belt and suspenders man’, I had felt that I should have some other way of earning a living..just in case.

2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 June 14 I'm a belt and braces man—have two smoke alarms, a fire blanket and a fire extinguisher. Better safe than sorry.

单词	belt and suspenders
释义	> as lemmas belt and suspenders Phrases †P1. belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers): a certain number of Our Fathers recited consecutively as a devotion; a studded belt, string of beads, or similar item used for keeping count when reciting this set of prayers. historical. Obsolete. [This use originated as a mistranslation by H. Spelman (see quot. 1664) of the passage in quot. OE, in which Old English æt VII beltidum , lit. ‘at the seven bell-times’, is apparently intended to gloss post-classical Latin canonicis horis , lit. ‘at the canonical hours’. In what N.E.D. (1887) described as ‘one of the most grotesque blunders on record’, Spelman misinterpreted Old English beltīdum (dative plural of beltīd canonical hour (marked by the ringing of a bell), lit. ‘bell-time’; < bell n.¹ + tide n.) as a Latin inflection of a putative word related to belt n.¹, and construed it with the following Pater Noster as ‘a paternoster of seven belts’, which he explained as a rosary.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > the Lord's Prayer > repetition of > frequent belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers)1720 OE Acts Council of Chelsea in A. W. Haddan & W. Stubbs Councils & Eccl. Documents (1871) III. 584 Et xxx diebus canonicis horis expleto synaxeos æt vii beltidum Pater Noster pro eo cantetur. 1664 H. Spelman Glossarium 79/1 Beltis,... Rosarium.] 1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. sig. Q3 When the Canonical Hours are finish'd.., let seven Belts of Pater-Nosters also, be sung for him. [Note] VII Beltidum Pater Noster: This seems to imply, that they had, in this Age, a certain Number of Studs fastened into their Belts, or Girdles, which were then us'd..for the numbring of their Prayers. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 69 The frequent repetition of the Lord's prayer, technically called a belt of Pater-nosters. [Note] A belt of Pater-nosters appears to correspond with a string of beads of later times... It is probable that the belt contained fifty Pater-nosters. 1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. i. viii. 8 After the canonical hours of the public service were over, seven ‘belts’ of Our Fathers had to be sung for the deceased. 1899 Reliquary Jan. 102 According to the evidence afforded by the wills and testamentary dispositions of the times the common English name for the beads was a ‘pair a beads,’ or a ‘belt of paternosters.’ P2. colloquial. under one's (also the) belt. a. Of food or drink, esp. alcohol: swallowed, consumed; in one's stomach. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [adverb] stomachically1684 under one's (also the) belt1771 intragastrically1959 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 122 He was carried home with six good bottles of claret under his belt. 1839 Spirit of Times 21 Dec. 498/3 Away we went, each bearing, under his belt, his full share of the antifogmatical..compound. 1882 Washington Post 25 July [He] goes out and puts another quart of whisky under his belt, and, going home, he falls off his horse. 1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 45 A man working as hard as they were couldn't be expected to keep going without a feed under his belt. 1965 R. Jeffries Dead against Lawyers vii. 69 Two whiskies under the belt are better than one. 2002 R. Rankin Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Apocalypse xxiii. 256 You'd need a few stiff ones under your belt before you got going with saving the world. b. Originally U.S. Safely or satisfactorily achieved, acquired, or experienced.In early use chiefly of racehorses or athletes. ΚΠ 1898 Boston Globe 10 Oct. 9/1 Charley Herr was the favorite, but he had too many races under his belt to be on edge for this his richest engagement of the year. 1911 N.Y. Times 29 May 10/3 It is my idea that the Cornellian can, under the climatic and track conditions which prevailed last Saturday, and without a previous race under his belt, go to the tape in a half-mile race close to 1:51. 1920 E. Hemingway Let. 16 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 39 Dempsey..has never had a real fight yet, Geo. [= Georges Carpentier] has a pile of them under his belt. 1954 Manch. Guardian Weekly 12 Aug. 12 His wife had 135,000 miles driving in the States under her belt..but was still failed. 1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead v. 216 He wanted me to get plenty of Latin and Greek under the belt so that I could be like him. 2004 Media Week 4 May 19/6 It's good to get extra qualifications under your belt. P3. to tighten (also pull in, draw in) one's belt.Cf. belt-tightener n. 2, belt-tightening n. 1, belt-tightening adj. 2. a. To pull in one’s belt tightly when buckling or tying it and so compress the stomach, esp. as a means of staving off or bearing hunger pangs. Later also: figurative to stave off, bear, or put up with hunger pangs (sometimes with allusion to literally tightening the belt for this purpose).In later use sometimes overlapping with sense Phrases 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > stave off hunger to tighten one's belt1824 1824 L. M. Child Hobomok iv. 41 Corbitant, too, threw his quiver over his shoulder, and tightened his belt, as if preparing for a journey. 1841 Chartist Circular 27 Feb. 329/3 ‘The camels endure hunger longer than I have,’ said the tanner, ‘let me draw my girdle closer.’ He tightened his belt. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. 1 This pilgrim has tightened his belt to stave off the gnawing at his stomach. 1891 R. Kipling Amir's Homily in Life's Handicap 290 I also was once starved, and tightened my belt on the sharp belly-pinch. 1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 v. 46 They's three things that's good for famine... Yu can pull in your belt, yu can drink, an' yu can eat. 1919 H. W. Lanier in L. P. Powell Social Unrest II. i. 382 We in Italy are accustomed to rationing... If we cannot get what we need from America, we shall draw in our belts still tighter. 2009 R. C. Wilson Julian Comstock iv. iv. 277 Given our numbers, and the accounted supplies, Julian calculates that we'll be tightening our belts by mid-month, and thoroughly starved by December. b. To reduce one's expenditure; to introduce (rigorous) economies; to economize.Now the main sense. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (intransitive)] > reduce expenditure retrench1663 economize1780 to tighten one's belt1902 to draw in (also shrink, pluck, pull in) one's horns1920 1902 Sheffield Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 4/4 Year by year the War Office has tightened its belt and required more work from the body. 1944 Food for Thought Nov. 46/1 All of us have to pull in our belts to pay for the war. 1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. (Late City Final ed.) a31/1 President Reagan made it clear from the start that Americans would have to tighten their belts and make sacrifices. 2014 London Evening Standard 9 Oct. (West End Final ed.) 56/2 [Housing] associations have tightened their belts, become a lot more efficient,..worked hard to develop alternative sources of finance. P4. belt and braces (originally and chiefly British). Later also belt and suspenders (North American). Chiefly attributive. a. Of an action, approach, etc.: that involves two or more precautionary measures or means to a desired end in order to decrease the likelihood of mishap; very or excessively cautious. ΚΠ 1955 R. Macintosh & M. Ostlere Local Analgesia Head & Neck xvii. 131 On the ‘belt and braces’ principle additional injections can be made along the line of the individual nerves. 1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting (1965) vi. 187 Magnetic tape units and card input units are usually fitted with some type of ‘belt and braces’ service which reads the tape or the card twice and compares the results for quality. 1995 J. W. Bartlett Equity Finance (ed. 2) I. iv. 64 The ultimate ‘belt and suspenders’ approach includes the practice of executing a contract between the corporation and each director. 2002 Digital Photogr. made Easy No. 12. 64/4 Oddly, the manual is also on a CD, which seems a bit belt and braces. b. Of a person: that habitually takes extra precautionary measures or employs more than one means to a desired end in order to decrease the likelihood of mishap; very or excessively cautious. ΚΠ 1971 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 May 397/1 A pessimist may be a belt-and-braces man but an optimist is a Parliamentary candidate. 1997 M. Martin & T. Jackson Personnel Pract. viii. 137 Fire and sabotage can be covered by using a fireproof safe for back-ups or by an off-site back-up..at another location. If you are a ‘belt and braces’ person you will do both! 1998 R. Anderson in M. Powell God Off-Broadway Introd. p. ix I wanted to be a playwright. But, being a ‘belt and suspenders man’, I had felt that I should have some other way of earning a living..just in case. 2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 June 14 I'm a belt and braces man—have two smoke alarms, a fire blanket and a fire extinguisher. Better safe than sorry. extracted from beltn.¹ < as lemmas
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