pluck up's Usage Examples:

If you pluck up enough courage to venture inside the tin shed from whence the sound comes.

Rock" (We Want Rock) – 3:44 "Ché Guevara" – 4:43 "De Tripas Corazón" (pluck up courage) (Carvajal, Lora) – 3:16 "El Peje Atajo" – (Peje's shortcut) –.

tries to convince Paul to tell Diane that he is leaving, but Paul cannot pluck up the courage to do it and says his goodbyes to everyone but her.

Lenny, formerly a writer of porn stories, can't pluck up the courage to ask out his attractive workmate Gail.

Jews who then were, and the Manichæans who were to come, who will not pluck up a herb lest they should be committing a murder.

studied under Hollywood acting coach Ivana Chubbuck, taking two years to pluck up the courage to audition for his first role, saying "half of acting is overcoming.

from alloplasticity to autoplasticity; after successful analysis he must pluck up courage to take action in real life'.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.

Will he ever pluck up the courage to invite her to see ‘Men in Turbans’?.

It is about a girl who got on the same bus as him, but he could not pluck up the courage to speak to her.

noted of the last opera Götterdämmerung: And now, O Nibelungen Spectator, pluck up; for all allegories come to an end somewhere.

War, the band explain the album's title as "the time it takes for you to pluck up the courage for something" and "the ability to cry while eating your cake.

16 At the coffee shop, Henry manages to pluck up the courage to ask the attractive cashier out on a date.

into his own body at the end and manages to talk to Jane, but fails to pluck up the courage to ask her out.

It had taken him that long to pluck up the courage.

behind it – among which shall rise another (horn), an offshoot, and shall pluck up by the roots the three (that were) before it.

" "In addition to succeeding in its bid to pluck up some post-‘Lithium' plaid-clad grunge fans," writes Josh Gray of Clash.

Synonyms:

pumped; tense; wired; pumped up;

Antonyms:

relaxed; unagitated; easy; unstrain; relax;