square up to sb/sth
UK US face up to sb/sth— phrasal verb with square uk/skweər/us/skwer/verb
to deal with a problem or difficult person bravely and with determination:
I thought she squared up to the situation admirably.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dealing with things or people
- attend to sb/sth
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- come up against sth
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- confront
- cut
- firefighting
- get sth in
- inherit
- jump-start
- negotiate
- overcome
- process
- reckon
- reckon with sb/sth
- see about sth
- see to sth/sb
- set about sth
- turn
- weather
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