Hi Greg, On 2021-07-25 3:30 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 03:21:54PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> On 2021-07-25 11:13 a.m., Brian wrote: >>> Belt and braces? We see you believe in it. :) >> What do you mean by this ? >> Belt and braces ?? > > "Braces" is a British term for suspenders. The American version of > this would be "belt and suspenders". > I just understood what it meant by taking a step back... I knew what suspenders are and when I saw "braces", what first came to my mind was the type that goes in the mouth. After came to me that it could probably be some type of solution for holding pants. So was something about redundancy... > If you're not familiar with *either* of these, it means "having > redundancy". Wearing both a belt and a set of suspenders gives you > two ways to prevent your pants from falling down. Both have to fail > before your pants fall down. > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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