screw up your courage
to force yourself to be brave:
I screwed up my courage and went in to see the director.
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
- pluck up your courage idiom
- plucky
- screw
- spunky
- stouthearted
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