Hello all,
It's time (past time, really) for me to buckle down and revive Slang-o-Rama and restart some writing. So, I'm starting off easy with... (yep, no secret here!)... buckle down.
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According to the Phrase Finder (which I'm glad to see is still available, although riddled with ads) buckle down, which means to apply oneself to hard work, originated in the U.S., but may be related to the 16th-century British phrase "buckle to." Deseret News has a nice article on buckle down and its possible derivation from knuckle down and its connection to buckle to, with the figurative buckle referring to the buckling of a suit of armor. In any case, this article claims buckle down first appeared in print in a magazine in 1865, in the sentence: "If he would only buckle down to serious study." This sentence appears in the March 1865 issue of "The Atlantic Monthly." You can read it for yourself right here.
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| There are buckles there somewhere, I'm sure. Image by Bernd from Pixabay |
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