gird (one's) loins
1gird one's loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare for conflict or a difficult time …
2gird one's loins — phrasal : to prepare for a test of strength or other trial : muster up one s resources : set to work often used with up can the British gird up their loins and move ahead Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington * * * I gird (up) one s loins… …
3gird one's loins — {v. phr.}, {literary} To prepare for action; get ready for a struggle or hard work. * /David girded up his loins and went out to meet the giant Goliath./ * /Seniors must gird their loins for the battles of life./ …
4gird one's loins — {v. phr.}, {literary} To prepare for action; get ready for a struggle or hard work. * /David girded up his loins and went out to meet the giant Goliath./ * /Seniors must gird their loins for the battles of life./ …
5gird\ one's\ loins — v. phr. literary To prepare for action; get ready for a struggle or hard work. David girded up his loins and went out to meet the giant Goliath. Seniors must gird their loins for the battles of life …
6gird one's loins — phrasal to prepare for action ; muster up one s resources …
7gird (up) one's loins (or gird oneself for something) — prepare and strengthen oneself for something difficult. → gird …
8gird up one's loins — To prepare for energetic action, as if by tucking up one s clothes • • • Main Entry: ↑loin …
9gird (up) one's loins — idi gird (up) one s loins, to prepare oneself for something requiring strength or endurance …
10gird up one's loins — verb To prepare oneself for something demanding. 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. Syn: steel oneself, shape up, suck it up …
