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Meanings of belt up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "close up"
Examples for "close up"
1
I shall be very interested to see how you work, close up.
2
It'd been a long time since I'd seen one so close up.
3
Dain caught a glimpse; another two said they saw it close up.
4
The property allows city folk a rare close up of working farms.
5
The sea was already close up to the stern of the boat.
1
She would immediately clam up or try to change the subject.
2
If I asked him questions straight out, he might clam up.
3
This caused the three Martians to clam up and look at one another.
4
Wallander thought that if he pushed too hard the boy might clam up.
5
You can't just say something like that and then clam up!
1
If you dummy up on cops they will slap you around.
2
Meet Mr. Wood! she declared happily, holding the grinning dummy up in front of her.
3
Lindy lifted the dummy up by the legs, then slammed his body hard against the floor.
4
She hoisted the dummy up from the chair where it had spent the day beside Lindy's dummy.
5
Best to just dummy up.
1
The arms shut up in the arsenals were distributed among the populace.
2
Mrs. Sutcliffe would be shut up in the dining-room with the sewing-party.
3
The gnomes kept me shut up in their hill all the time.
4
The place is now shut up, and the owners live in France.
5
The troubled times of the Regulators shut up the courts of justice.
1
Tell her to button up her suit and turn her radio on.
2
I button up my jacket, thanking God for the warmth of it.
3
She began to button up her coat again with sure, thin fingers.
4
All he could do was button up again and hope nobody had noticed.
5
Then button up the coat, and do the same with that.
1
The one thing in the world we wanted was to be quiet.
2
She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech.
3
I wish I were there; it must be quiet at any rate.
4
The men are required to be quiet and orderly in their deportment.
5
The horses are only a little balky; they will be quiet soon.
1
Well, you had better warn her to keep mum before her father.
2
And I know you'll be a friend of mine, and keep mum.
3
It don't make any difference WHAT happens, we got to keep mum.
4
Well, keep mum 'bout it, will ye, till I talk to him?
5
He thinks it a good joke and he will keep mum.
Usage of belt up in English
1
Then he got out, hitching his belt up over his considerable girth.
2
So why do they sometimes belt up and other times don't?
3
On the accessory front, men and women can belt up for the season.
4
She is urging road users over the Easter break to " belt up".
5
She brought the belt up, undid the loop, then wrapped it around her waist.
6
The man hitched his belt up his broad fat belly.
7
Dick Stolee hitched his wide leather belt up over the round mound of his belly.
8
Drivers are also less likely to belt up when travelling on rural, regional and county roads.
9
Freddie de la Hay had been trained to belt up in the back of a car.
10
Like the others, he hung his equipment belt up to dry but kept the sword with him.
11
Then he rubbed his eye with his other hand, got on his knees, and pulled the belt up.
12
He hitched his belt up, and looked round to make sure his sisters were not within reach of interference.
13
Climb in, belt up.
14
Simon gave me a little more of his meal this morning, and went without himself: I took my belt up three holes to relieve hunger.
15
Belt up -sothe lords can see us fight it out.
16
He pushed a chair near to her and sat bolt up.