pluck up your courage
also pluck up (the) courage to do sthC2 to force yourself to be brave enough to do something, although you are frightened or worried about it:
He finally plucked up courage to ask her to marry him.
I'd love to do a parachute jump, but I can't pluck up the/enough courage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Brave and courageous
- adventurous
- audacious
- ballsy
- be man enough to do sth idiom
- bite
- faint
- get sth up
- get your courage up idiom
- grasp the nettle idiom
- gritty
- gutsy
- have nerves of steel idiom
- knightly
- muster
- nerve
- plucky
- screw
- screw up your courage idiom
- spunky
- stouthearted
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