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Opinions vary [1] between:
- Comparing the experience and what was learned and gained from it, to a meal now eaten and safely stowed away in the stomach.
- The effect of a punch below the belt in boxing or other fist fighting.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]under one's belt
- Already done; within one's experience; practiced.
He got off to a shaky start, but with a few months of experience under his belt, he kept up handily with the veteran employees.
1998, “Two Little Girls”, in Ani DiFranco (lyrics), Little Plastic Castle, performed by Ani DiFranco:You were fresh off the boat from Virginia / I had a year in New York City under my belt / We met in a dream, we were both nineteen
within one's experience
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- French: à son actif, derrière la cravate
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