buckle to

== English == === Etymology === From buckle + to. === Verb === buckle to (third-person singular simple present buckles to, present participle buckling to, simple past and past participle buckled to) (intransitive, idiomatic, informal) Synonym of buckle down (“to apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort”). === Further reading === [John Camden Hotten] (1859), “BUCKLE TO”, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, […], London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC.