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- Belt around
belt around Historical Examples Bidwell’s Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Austin Biron Bidwell The Rock of Chickamauga Joseph A. Altsheler Blazing Arrow Edward S. Ellis Friar Tuck Robert Alexander Wason The Gold Sickle Eugne Sue The North Pacific Willis Boyd Allen Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace […]
- Belvoir castle
noun a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816 Historical Examples Sir Walter Ralegh William Stebbing Notes and Queries, Number 243, June 24, 1854 Various Records of Later Life Frances Ann Kemble The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, Issue 564, […]
- Below par
Also, under par. Not up to the average, normal, or desired standard. For example, I am feeling below par today, but I’m sure I’ll recover by tomorrow. This term employs par in the sense of “an average amount or quality,” a usage dating from the late 1700s. Historical Examples The Government Class Book Andrew W. […]
- Below the belt
a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist. any encircling or transverse band, strip, or stripe. an elongated region having distinctive properties or characteristics: a belt of cotton plantations. Machinery. an endless flexible band passing about two or more pulleys, used to transmit motion from one pulley to the other […]
- Below the belt, hit
Not behave according to the rules or decency, unfairly, as in Bringing up my mother’s faults—that’s really hitting below the belt . The term comes from boxing, where according to the Marquis of Queensberry Rules (1865) a fighter may punch his opponent only in the upper body or head. For a synonym, see low blow […]