keep one's chin up

[keep one's chin up] {v. phr.}

To be brave; be determined; face trouble with courage.

* /He didn't think that he would ever get out of the jungle alive, but he kept his chin up./

Compare: KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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