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Cheer up   /tʃɪr əp/   Listen
Cheer up

verb
1.
Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful.  Synonyms: cheer, jolly along, jolly up.
2.
Become cheerful.  Synonyms: cheer, chirk up.  Antonym: complain.






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"Cheer up" Quotes from Famous Books



... reverse was really a magnificent naval victory. I do not know who sent the telegram, or on what foundation in fact it was based. I think that somebody in authority considered it would be well to cheer up our men with a piece of good news. At any rate all who were at the dressing station believed it, and I determined to carry a copy of the telegram with me up to the men in the line. I started off on one of the ambulances for Railway Dugouts. Those ambulance journeys through the town of Ypres ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... she said, with a twinkle that might have referred to the first of the two exclamations. "It must be your Scotch habit of going slowly and surely. But cheer up! We'll find ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... from the princess' court. We do not lack rybalts who cheer up the court, but she is the sweetest little rybalt of them all, and to the songs of no one else will the ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... Gods would bring about This business in your sleep; and that your wife, Without your stir, would be convey'd to you Into your bed-chamber?—I would not have you Thus negligent in other matters.—Come, Cheer up, son! you ...
— The Comedies of Terence • Publius Terentius Afer

... he had before worn, and sent off at once a messenger with all speed to a franklin near the forest to borrow a stout rope some fifty feet in length, and without telling his comrades what the plans of Sir Cuthbert were, bade them cheer up, for that desperate as the position was, all hope was ...
— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty


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