phrasal verb/idiom · neutral
buckle down
/ˈbʌkəl daʊn/BUC·kle·DOWN
speakingtask2
to start working seriously and with determination
Examples
“I need to buckle down and finish this assignment tonight.”
“After wasting time all week, he finally buckled down.”
“If you want good grades you must buckle down now.”
Band 8 sentence
“After procrastinating for weeks, I finally buckled down and completed the dissertation in two months.”
Collocations
- buckle down to work
- buckle down and study
Common mistakes
buckle up→buckle down
buckle the down→buckle down
Say it for a higher band
5work hard→6get down to work→7+buckle down
Synonyms
get down to work
Easily confused
get down to business
“Once the meeting started, everyone got down to business.”
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