get up the nerve

get up the nerve
{v. phr.} To build up your courage until you are brave enough; become brave enough. * /Jack got up the nerve to ask Ruth to dance with him./ * /The hungry little boy got up nerve to ask for another piece of cake./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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