keep your chin up
/ˌkiːp jə ˈtʃɪn ʌp/INFORMAL · B2
Meaning
to stay cheerful in a difficult situation
Examples
- 1Keep your chin up, Tom — the results come out on Friday.
- 2She kept her chin up through weeks of hospital visits.
- 3He is keeping his chin up despite two rejections this month.
- 4Everyone told me to keep my chin up until the decision arrived.
- 5How do you keep your chin up when the weather is like this?
Grammar
Most often an imperative used to encourage someone. Only the verb changes (keeps, kept, keeping), and the possessive matches the subject.
Similar in meaning
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