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belt and suspenders

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[ belt uhn suh-spen-derz ]

adjective

Chiefly U.S. and Canada
  1. relating to or using two or more measures to ensure success:

    We took a belt and suspenders approach to backing up the data and had backups in several places.



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Getting a second opinion may sound like a sensible “belt and suspenders” sort of approach to take when making a serious decision like overturning a conviction, but the reality is much more complicated.

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“Trump’s lawyers are taking a belt and suspenders approach to his cases,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Salon.

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“You want all the belt and suspenders that you can have,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which litigated Dobbs v.

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“We thought it was appropriate to do ‘belt and suspenders’ — a double protection,” he said.

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"We ended up having to rig a belt and suspenders underneath to keep it up and for Cara to even be able to walk in it," Cloud revealed.

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