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cheer up
Idioms and Phrases
Become or make happy, raise the spirits of, as in This fine weather should cheer you up . This term may also be used as an imperative, as Shakespeare did ( 2 Henry IV , 4:4): “My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself.†[Late 1500s]Example Sentences
The “Midas Man†actor said in a recent interview with People that to cheer up his wife one day, he took her shopping at Nordstrom.
“Maybe the current global situation, be it geopolitical or macroeconomic, does not lead people to cheer up and to open bottles of Champagne.â€
But, the Santa Monica Fire Department told Rogers they could try to look for an item she was seeking that she knew would cheer up her children.
"Those beats and rhythms cheer up the guys on the front line and inspire them to fight," he says.
Ian is encouraging people who are "cheered up" by the boat to make a donation to the Beatson Cancer Charity, whom he says have done a "tremendous" amount for his family.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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