| 词组 | pluck up one's courage |
| 释义 | Idiom pluck up one's courage Theme: COURAGE to increase one's courage a bit.Come on, Ann, make the dive. Pluck up your courage and do it.Pluck up your courage, Ann! You can do it! pluck up (one's) courageTo emotionally prepare oneself to do a frightening or overwhelming task; to bolster one's courage. I'm really nervous about asking Sarah out on a date, but I just need to pluck up my courage and go through with it. I know he's terrified of speaking in public, so he's plucking up his courage with a stiff drink. pluck up one's courageAlso, screw up one's courage. Force oneself to overcome fear or timidity, as in He was really afraid of slipping on the ice, but he plucked up his courage and ventured down the driveway , or I screwed up my courage and dove off the high board. The first term uses pluck in the sense of "make a forcible effort"; Shakespeare put it as "Pluck up thy spirits" ( The Taming of the Shrew, 4:3). The variant derives from the use of screw to mean "force or strain by means of a screw." |
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