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Buoy up   /bˈui əp/   Listen
Buoy up

verb
1.
Become more cheerful.  Synonyms: lighten, lighten up.
2.
Make more cheerful.  Synonyms: lighten, lighten up.
3.
Keep afloat.  Synonym: buoy.






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"Buoy up" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I want you to think of the sky, first. It's a dead black, a hundred miles up. Now, at a hundred miles up, the air is so thin that there's little or no dust, but as you gradually come down and the air becomes denser, it begins to be able to buoy up some dust. Boys," he said, breaking off suddenly, "why does a stick float in water when it falls ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

... you're referring to that paper again, and I don't blame you a bit. We'll do our level best to get hold of it before then," and trying as well as he knew how to buoy up the drooping spirits of the disappointed chum Tom locked arms with him, and in ...
— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster



Words linked to "Buoy up" :   sustain, hold up, weigh down, chirk up, cheer up, cheer, hold, support, buoy



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