tighten one's belt

tighten one's belt

• • [口语、比喻]
  • 勒紧腰带，忍饥挨饿
  • 节衣缩食，减少开支；节俭度日，省吃俭用

• coessentialness
• put (或 bring) to the test
• selachian
• trouser-pocket
• sunnily
• centralisers
• Cantabrizing
• give someone a bit of one's mind
• discharge lamp
• recoverer
• global consciousness
• ricochetings
• dress sb ↔ down
• can-do
• allowable soil pressure
• animatronic
• holdups
• chivalric
• pick brains
• hatchment
• coldbloodedness
• ship biscuits
• pay a premium for
• Public Record Office
• a needle in the bottle of hay
• sex kittens
• jauntiness
• rubberneck
• take one's place
• life styles
• channel sampling
• tracking snow
• protension
• anoxemia
• warhead installation
• tegmentums
• colonelship
• protein
• unlikenesses
• deuterogenesis
• above par
• maceral
• true to your word / principles etc
• measurable space
• sport with
• drive someone to distraction
• dynamites
• Oscillometries
• hunt down
• individualisations
• grid azimuth
• kakotopian
• Nipponian
• magic carpets
• arthrodial
• give someone a back-cap
• drunk as a bilod owl
• do sth once too often
• believe
• Jammu
• chowders
• annihilationism
• fly-fishing
• Dematiaceae
• decaffeinate
• clockings
• trade dress
• put one's knees under someone's mahogany
• Henri, Robert
• semester hours
• chanels
• escape hatch
• Belgian blocks
• RHG
• drink-hail
• tillerman
• enticest
• bitewings
• grampss
• blue brittleness
• dedicates
• pulsatillas
• bobby-dazzlers
• zoologized
• Christmas tree
• get out of the light
• pdries
• immeasurable
• allylamines
• self-flagellation
• lechatelierite
• highbush blueberries
• vagi
• MEO
• stigmatiser
• breakpoints
• Scotch collops
• blood agar
• sukkos
• power plant