with a belly造句

Ten to fifteen years after we were shut up in the recitation room from elementary school to university, we finally came out with a belly full of meridians, but in fact we knew nothing about them.

For one thing, the five New York Dons were in the old Sicilian tradition, they were "men with a belly" meaning, figuratively, power and courage; and literally, physical flesh, as if the two went together, as indeed they seem to have done in Sicily.