get the courage up (to do something)
- get the courage up (to do something)
get enough nerve up† (to do something) & get enough courage up† (to do something) & get enough guts up† (to do something) & get enough pluck up† (to do something) & get enough spunk up† (to do something) & get the nerve up† (to do something) & get the courage up† (to do something) & get the guts up† (todo something) & get the pluck up† (to do something) & get the spunk up† (to do something)
Fig. to work up enough courage to do something. •
I hope I can get enough nerve up to ask her for her autograph.
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I wanted to do it, but I couldn't get up enough nerve.
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I thought he would never get up the courage to ask me for a date.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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