单词 | brace up |
释义 | brace upSEE SYNONYMS FOR brace up ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Words nearby brace upbracer, bracero, brace root, braces, brace table, brace up, brach, brachah, brachi-, brachial, brachial artery 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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