brace up

Idioms and Phrases

Also, brace oneself . Summon up one's courage or resolve, as in Brace up, we don't have much farther to go , or Squaring his shoulders, he braced himself for the next wave . This idiom uses brace in the sense of “to bolster” or “to strengthen.” The first term dates from the early 1700s, the variant from about 1500.

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