under one's belt

Experienced or achieved, as in Once a medical student has anatomy under her belt, she'll have much less to memorize. This metaphoric expression likens food that has been consumed to an experience that has been digested. [Colloquial; first half of 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
&Aelig;Lred	-	Anglo-Saxon
Lucasta	-	Literature
Adrian	AY-dree-ən (English), AHD-ryahn (Polish), AH-dree-ahn (German), ah-dree-AHN (Russian)	English, Romanian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian
Ioses	-	Biblical Greek
Andromache	ahn-dro-mah-ke (Ancient Greek)	Greek Mythology
Rosica	-	Bulgarian