Translations for „pluck up“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

pluck up VB trans

to pluck up the courage to do sth

criar coragem para fazer a. c.

Usage examples with pluck up

to pluck up the courage to do sth

criar coragem para fazer a. c.

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

They will have to pluck up courage for the big reveal.

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Cause when you do pluck up the courage to like, talk to him, you'll end up saying something completely hatstand.

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Despite telling her boyfriend in 2014, she didn't pluck up the courage to go to the authorities until last summer.

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

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We could not pluck up the courage to go in.

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It took me nearly a year to pluck up courage to phone her.

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I pluck up the courage to plunge in.

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They asked her manager to tell her, and it took him three weeks to pluck up the courage.

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I never thought he would pluck up the courage to do this.

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But you've got to just pluck up the courage to do it; have confidence and not be afraid of what they think.

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