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View synonyms for cheer up

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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]
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Example Sentences

“When the cards started to come, I had to cheer up,” she says.

You can cheer up along with sleepy Jean by listening to “Daydream Believer.”

If you find that passage as much of a downer as I did, well, Cheer up, Charlie.

Though she gets all the pumpkins she can eat and a good bunch of corn stalks every night, she simply can't cheer up.

Here are concerts,—the best and best-known artists come out and give their services to cheer up Tommy.

"Here, Miss Betsy, cheer up," he cried when he drew near the little girl.

Kurt had made it his duty to cheer up the rather melancholy child as much as was in his power.

I was beginning to grow jealous, when Hbert said to me, "Cheer up, it's only about something he wants him to do for him!"

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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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