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If someone girds their loins or girds up their loins, they prepare themselves mentally to deal with a difficult situation. He is girding his loins to demand financial compensation. As an idiom, the phrase gird your loins suggests you should prepare yourself mentally or physically for something that's rather difficult or challenging.

In exodus 12:11, as part of the instructions for the passover, god directs the israelites to eat the meal with their loins girded, signifying their readiness to leave egypt at a moment's notice. This is an archaic idiom and, although it may still be understood by native speakers of english, it is often used humorously, if at all, mostly owing to the fact that one's loins are often considered.