(to) buckle down

 

 

Hello,everyone  I would like introduce the idiom (to) buckle down.

It means to startworking seriously, apply oneself to hard work.

 

If you start stadying before take a test, it's buckle down.

 

According to the Phrase Finder,  this is a US phrase, although it may well be related to an earllier British phrase "buckle to', which ,means much the same thing. that datea back to the early 18th century, for example, from John Arbuthnot's story

John Bull in The Law is a bottomless pit , 1712:

 

 

"Squire South buckled too, to assist his friend Nic."

 

 

'Buckle down' is first cited in the American literary/cultural magazine Atlantic Monthly, 1865:

 

 

"If he would only buckle to serious study."

 

 

Arata Kobayashi