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

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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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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