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Tighten Your Belt

Living in financial constraints; making sacrifice and diminishing the living standards

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  • If you don’t have enough money then you’d buy less food and you’d probably be losing your weight in those circumstances. Thus, you’ve to tighten your belt as well. The origination of this expression comes from this particular idea.
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He was unable to get returns from his investment and now he has to tighten his belt.

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Submitted on February 25, 2019

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