batten down the hatches

We had just time enough to batten down the hatches.

For everyone else, it is time to start battening down the hatches.

Eventually, I get up to batten down the hatches - too late.

Then we battened down the hatches and made some soup.

Do you batten down the hatches or flee for your life?

"We could not simply batten down the hatches and wait for the next attack to hit us," he said.

And speaking of battening down the hatches, we've got two big stories.

You clear off the decks, get everybody inside and batten down the hatches.

We really tried to batten down the hatches and try to get through that."

"We have to batten down the hatches and prepare for the worst."

They've all battened down the hatches and are ready to ride out the storm.

People were being told to batten down the hatches.

"Basically, we're battening down the hatches and trying to ride it out."

The first step was to batten down the hatches.

Give it up people and batten down the hatches.

And the academy's reaction - to batten down the hatches - has not helped.

Batten down the hatches, it is going to be a bumpy ride!

Still, some Western investors are battening down the hatches, waiting for the current storm to pass.

But based on the behavior of similar faults, residents may want to batten down the hatches.

Think of it as the taste of battening down the hatches.

"It was more battening down the hatches for cash in the short term.

There's not a lot you can do about that except batten down the hatches and wait for it to moderate.

I'd hate to make the big decision and then have one of us get killed before we could batten down the hatches."

"They are showing good caution by battening down the hatches a little bit.

But that was only for the convenience of the crew; it's hard to batten down the hatches in free fall.