PLUCK UP ONE'S COURAGE Definition & Meaning

pluck up one's courage

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Also, 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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Courā′geousness.—Dutch courage, a fictitious courage induced by drinking; Pluck up one's courage, to nerve one's self to something daring; The courage of one's convictions, courage to act up to or consistently with one's opinions.

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