muster sth up
— phrasal verb with muster uk/ˈmʌs.tər/us/ˈmʌs.tɚ/verb [ I or T ]
If you muster up a feeling of courage or energy, you try hard to find that quality in yourself because you need it in order to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] She finally mustered up the courage to ask him for more money.
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Brave and courageous
- adventurous
- audacious
- ballsy
- be man enough to do sth idiom
- bite
- faint
- get sth up
- get your courage up idiom
- grasp the nettle idiom
- gritty
- gutsy
- have nerves of steel idiom
- knightly
- muster
- nerve
- plucky
- screw
- screw up your courage idiom
- spunky
- stouthearted
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