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Cheer up   /tʃɪr əp/   Listen
Cheer up

verb
1.
Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful.  Synonyms: cheer, jolly along, jolly up.
2.
Become cheerful.  Synonyms: cheer, chirk up.






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"Cheer up" Quotes from Famous Books



... the side of a hill, with red gleams of light winking out of the windows in a jolly way into the winter's night: wishing, one might fancy, to cheer up the hearts of the freezing stables and barn and hen-house that snuggled about the square yard, trying to keep warm. The broad-backed old hill (Scofield's Hill, a famous place for papaws in summer) guards them tolerably well; but then, house and barn ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... "Well, cheer up, lad," said Nicholas. "These afflictions are hard to bear, it is true; but somehow they are got over. Just as if your horse should fling you in the midst of a hedge when you are making a flying leap, you get scratched and bruised, but you scramble out, and in a day or two ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... Amanda told him, a lighter feeling in her heart. "What we are concerned about now is Martin Landis. You should have stayed and seen it through, faced them and demanded the lie to be traced to its source. Why, Martin, cheer up, ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... not disposed to wear widow's weeds," remarked Lady Blennington. "Cheer up, dear, he'll come back all right. Husbands always do. It is our other intimate friends ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Nell is impatient sometimes. But she has not been well. She has had to work too hard, and we must be patient with her. Let us make her welcome, and then I believe everything will go right. Cheer up," said ...
— The Hero of Hill House • Mable Hale


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