| 单词 | to keep one's pecker up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep one's pecker up 4. British colloquial. Courage, resolution. Chiefly in to keep one's pecker up: to remain cheerful or steadfast. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > be resolute or determined [verb (intransitive)] confirm1382 needsa1387 beseta1400 purposea1400 to be determined1529 to set downa1586 to set (up) one's rest1593 to stop at nothing1676 to keep one's pecker up1845 the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [phrase] > exhortation to be cheerful to keep one's pecker up1845 keep your chin up1938 the mind > emotion > courage > moral courage > stoicism > [noun] stoicism1630 grit1825 pecker1845 sand1867 stiff-upper-lippery1961 stiffupperlippishness1973 1845 Times 15 Sept. 8/3 Mr. King..misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up. 1848 R. Morier Let. 8 Feb. in R. Wemyss Mem. & Lett. (1911) I. 65 I broke..down completely [at the Oxford Union]... However, my pecker is up, and I have just put forward a motion in propria persona. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 249 Pecker, ‘keep your Pecker up’,..literally, keep your beak and head well up, ‘never say die’. 1875 W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury 4 Be firm, my moral pecker. 1901 R. C. Lehmann Anni Fugaces 56 Weighed down by debt they yet keep up their pecker. 1928 A. Merritt Seven Footprints to Satan xiii. 180 I was talkin' loud to keep my pecker up. 1995 Time Out 9 Aug. 113/4 I've had my fill of trite wartime sentimentality and chirpy ‘keep yer pecker up’ dialogue. < as lemmas |
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