snap out of sth
informal— phrasal verb with snap uk/snæp/us/snæp/verb -pp-
to force yourself to stop feeling sad and upset:
He just can't snap out of the depression he's had since his wife died.
Now come on, snap out of it. Losing that money isn't the end of the world.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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