chin up

See also: chin-up

English

Etymology

Ellipsis of keep one's chin up.

Pronunciation

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Phrase

chin up

1. (colloquial) Be happy; cheer up.

   Chin up: it’s your birthday.

Translations

cheer up

• Finnish: leuka pystyyn
• French: haut les cœurs (fr), courage (fr)
• German: Kopf hoch (de)
• Hungarian: fel a fejjel
• Latvian: nenokar degunu, galvu augšā
• Persian: خوشحال باش
• Polish: głowa do góry (pl)
• Russian: вы́ше нос (výše nos)
• Swedish: upp med hakan

Verb

chin up (third-person singular simple present chins up, present participle chinning up, simple past and past participle chinned up)

1. (intransitive) To face a situation cheerfully or with confidence.

   You'll have to chin up to get through this.