Loins
21(the) fruit of loins — the fruit of (your) loins humorous your children. The fruit of my loins you may be, but that doesn t mean I have to look after you all my life! …
22gird one's loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare for conflict or a difficult time …
23gird up your loins — gird (up) your loins : to prepare yourself for a fight or for some difficult task The company is girding its loins for what could be a long strike. • • • Main Entry: ↑loin …
24gird your loins — gird (up) your loins : to prepare yourself for a fight or for some difficult task The company is girding its loins for what could be a long strike. • • • Main Entry: ↑loin …
25gird (up) your loins — gird (up) your ˈloins idiom (literary humorous) to get ready to do sth difficult • The company is girding its loins for a plunge into the overseas market. Main entry: ↑ …
26gird up one's loins — verb To prepare oneself for something demanding. Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work. Syn: steel oneself, shape up, suck it up …
27fruit of one's loins — noun Ones child, children, or descendents. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David . . . being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he …
28fruits of your loins — Meaning One s children. Origin From the Bible, Genesis 35:11. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; …
29gird (up) one's loins (or gird oneself for something) — prepare and strengthen oneself for something difficult. → gird …
30gird (up) one's loins — idi gird (up) one s loins, to prepare oneself for something requiring strength or endurance …