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buck up

verb as in cheer up

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That said, telling voters to buck up and realize how good they have it would also be a bad move.

And it has attracted a parade of high-profile visitors to buck up Trump, including the speaker of the House.

To picture Baldwin as caring enough about Capote’s sadness over losing access to his exclusionary patrons to drop what he’s doing and devote a “buck up, buttercup” day on the town with Capote beggars belief.

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The officials were also trying to buck up their own staff.

The former is bucking orders to take a speeder ride, and the latter delivers "buck up, kid" speeches via hologram before marching into a salvage facility and declaring she's a general.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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