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moral support
Idioms and Phrases
Emotional or psychological backing, as opposed to material help. For example, There's not much I can do at the doctor's office, but I'll come with you to give you moral support . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
Stracke told Beauvais and Richards that she felt it was time to make things right with Reba and asked them to come along with her for moral support.
Two large candles have been lit in the driveway and a leaflet taped to the gate has a phone number for anyone who feels they need psychological counselling or moral support, provided by local social services.
I am married to a sailor — a competitive one — but aside from providing moral support and being a fun date to the after party, my biggest contribution on race weekends is what I create in the kitchen.
Stevie says what's really important is that parents are there for moral support, without crowding.
After years of drinking himself into “increasingly dire circumstances,” the narrator of Deagler’s debut novel quits the bottle and tries living at his parents’ suburban house, where sympathy and moral support are in short supply.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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