To "gird your loins" is to pull your robe up from around your knees and either tie it together under your genitalia or tuck it up inside your smallclothes send post.
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@[email protected] When I wanted to use this as an #adhd metaphor a few years back it suddenly hit me that not everybody already knew what the term meant. Fortunately, somebody put together a pretty good visual guide: How to gird your loins.
(Disclaimer: I know nothing about the rest of the site, although at a quick glance they are a lot saner than you would expect from the name "Art of Manliness"...)
(I don't know why we don't say "smallclothes" any more. Truly, it is a world of wonder.)
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@GeePawHill I am a proud wearer of the 'full brief' that my partner calls stomach warmers
