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n. In a facility or organization, the location where work is actually carried out.
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Belly of the beast may refer to:
- In the Belly of the Beast, a book written by Jack Abbott and published in 1981
- "Belly of the Beast", an Anthrax song off their 1991 album Persistence of Time
- Belly of the Beast, a 2003 action film starring Steven Seagal
Usage examples of "belly of the beast".
In their first short foray into the belly of the beast, they had learned enough to know they needed to be better prepared before they came back.
The belly of the beast had been slit lengthwise, and the green scales flayed back from the midline to expose the layered rotting matrix of dragon organs.
Arms resting on his thighs, Richard crouched in the belly of the beast.
It is a fact well known to those who know it well, and indeed to anyone else who has ever been dumb enough to apply for tickets to a TV show, that the interior of TV studios, the very interior, the sanctum sanctorum, the heart of hearts, the belly of the beast, the studio proper, is a real disappointment, when you've finished queuing up and finally get to see it.
The field was empty except for the Blood Lord back-up team who were scattered around the ladder that led to the belly of the beast.
After the convention, though, I suspect it will be back into the belly of the beast.
Now they shivered in the freezing dark as predatory aliens closed in on either side and only a forlorn hope stood between them and an end in the belly of the beast.