tighten one’s belt



tighten one’s belt

tv. to prepare for economies. (see also take one’s belt in (a notch).) The entire country will have to tighten its belt.
See also: belt, tighten

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Harunahah-ṙoo-nahJapanese
Viktorija-Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian
Bainbridge['beibridʒ]
Mckenzie[mə'kenzi]
Routh-Biblical Greek
Kelila-Hebrew