IDIOMS
gird (up) your loins (literary or humorous) to get ready to do sth difficult:
The company is girding its loins for a plunge into the overseas market.
PHRASALVERBS
gird yourself / sb/sth (up) for sth (literary) to prepare for sth difficult, especially a fight, contest, etc.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gird is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gird a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gird is tagged as verb.
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