pluck up one's courage

English

Alternative forms

• pluck up the courage
• pluck up courage

Verb

pluck up one's courage (third-person singular simple present plucks up one's courage, present participle plucking up one's courage, simple past and past participle plucked up one's courage)

1. To muster the bravery and will to do something.

   Synonyms: gather up one's courage, screw up one's courage

Translations

to muster the bravery to do something

• Dutch: de stoute schoenen aantrekken, de moed bijeenrapen
• Finnish: rohkaistua (fi), kerätä rohkeutta
• French: prendre son courage à deux mains (fr), prendre ses couilles en main
• Italian: farsi coraggio, farsi forza
• Polish: zbierać się na odwagę impf, zebrać się na odwagę pf

See also

• grow some balls

Further reading

• “pluck up the courage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pluck up one's courage”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “pluck up the courage”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pluck up your courage”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “pluck up the courage”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “pluck up the courage” (US) / “pluck up the courage” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.