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"pluck up" Definitions
  1. to pull out; uproot
  2. to muster (courage, one's spirits, etc)

42 Sentences With "pluck up"

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It took hours for me to pluck up the courage to wear it.
Talk to people in tutorials and lectures, pluck up the courage to suggest a coffee after class.
It takes me about two hours to pluck up the courage to do what I gotta do.
Limited partners need to take more risks and pluck up the courage to back new female-focused funds, according to Brown.
I stood there, not knowing what to do: either go back and wait for dawn, or pluck up my courage and risk it.
I've met Foals twice since then but have never managed to pluck up the courage to tell them quite what they mean to me.
"It's very discouraging if you pluck up the courage to say 'I'm feeling like this' and the person says 'Sorry mate, I don't understand,'" says Loyle.
But while the country star is a huge fan of the "No Tears Left to Cry" singer, she couldn't pluck up the courage to introduce herself to Grande, 25.
As Ecclesiastes has it, there is a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.
In the name of love I forced myself to pluck up, order a vodka on the rocks from the movie theater bar, and endure one hour and 31 minutes of paralyzing fear.
" He added: "It is just unthinkable that the government could take us out with no deal, without a majority and we've slowly got more people to pluck up courage on no-deal.
If you unfortunately, like me, have gone through a similar experience, I hope that you will pluck up the courage, seek support from those around you, and no longer be lenient toward offenders.
Technically this was a work trip but I'll let it slide, mostly because Kevin Durant deserves to do the funny pose of looking serious while pretending to pluck up the palace from a distance.
Only after Mr Sadr erected a protest tent in the Green Zone, and insisted he would stay there until Mr Abadi acted, did Mr Abadi finally pluck up the courage to name his own cabinet.
It used the money to pluck up competitors; establish new operations overseas; secure a blockbuster agreement to eventually acquire American cannabis firm Acreage Holdings; invest in medicinal research; and formulate a slew of cannabis beverages, chocolates and vaporizers.
Or you know, pluck up some courage and ask their friends out the old fashioned way—by sadly stalking their social media late at night and hoping they notice you liking all their posts from two years ago. [Wired]
It's easy, carefree and you don't have to have three shots to pluck up your courage to talk to someone.
I hope you are able to pluck up your courage, so that you can do what has to be done.
Pluck up your courage to talk to one of the ghosts, or make them do a funny pose with you and take pictures.
Pluck up your courage, and we'll let Townleys and MacNairs whistle their mouldy feuds down the wind while we sail southward in The Fair Lady.
You have to pluck up your courage to express ideas that are not majority opinion, or to face the hostility or ridicule that may accompany departing from social norms.
As you finish reading this book, and you put it down, I urge you to pluck up your courage and tell me all you think about it, straight to my face.
In Nocturnal wildlife spotting around the UK, we'll be looking at some of the creatures you may encounter if you pluck up your courage and head for the woods or fields.
Pluck up your courage and go up and introduce yourself to him, then try to mention what you are doing, and get his e-mail so you can send him more information.
Herpetological Monographs, pp. 38–191. However, the red-tailed hawks ranging into the neotropics regularly take numerous species of lizards. This is especially true of hawks living on islands which are not naturally colonized by small mammals. Insular red-tails commonly pluck up mostly tiny anoles, that may average only in adult mass, depending on species.
Her date, Greg, is happy to see her, but Steph believes that he was hoping for the girl in the photo. Steph is shocked when Greg explains that they had met before at TAFE. She suddenly remembers him and tells him how all the girls liked him. Greg admits that he was interested in Steph back then but could not pluck up the courage to ask her out.
Danesh wrote "Rushes" when he was 16 years old. He originally wrote the lyrics on the back of a bus ticket. 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.CBBC Newsround 29 November 2002 As with the majority of the songs on his album, he was involved in the creative writing process.
He had found answers to his deepest philosophical, social, national, and spiritual conundrums in Christ and his teaching. He sincerely believed that India her masses would be saved if they converted to Christ and Christianity. Tilak tried to get Laxmi to join him and waited for many long months for her to pluck up courage and join him. She seemed to agree with him intellectually and spiritually, but balked at the last moment.
Lenny, formerly a writer of porn stories, can't pluck up the courage to ask out his attractive workmate Gail. Jody, unknown to the others, has been fired from her job, but still shows up after her "shift" every night to talk. At the hospital, Sean strikes up a friendship with the girlfriend of a coma patient; she confides in him that at the time of the accident she was about to end the relationship. Later, the two sleep together.
A show spokesperson told Hill "Callum's cringing and embarrassed and doesn't know how he's going to get through each day working with Rani. And Callum is not at all happy about Toadie spilling the beans." Callum continues to carry "a torch" for Rani and spends months trying to "pluck up courage" to tell her how he feels about her. However, he is heartbroken when he catches her kissing Harley Canning (Justin Holborow) and learns that they are dating.
He and Aaron go to see if she can help. Arriving there Aaron needs some time to pluck up the courage to say what he needs to so he and Robert take a walk which leads to them reconnecting, but they agree to take things slow. A young thief tries to make off with Aaron's wallet and Robert gives chase earning him a knee to the groin. They later learn that the thief is Aaron's half-sister Liv Flaherty (Isobel Steele).
He praised the performances of Sophie, Mirallegro and Jarvis. He found that the soundtrack was cleverly chosen to advance the plot, and that the script fools expectations as it switches time periods while steadily approaching the re-enactment of the murderous attack. He also found it a fair point for Rob to pluck up the courage to be different in the end by dressing in gothic. Caroline Preece of Den of Geek praised director Paul Andrew Williams for showing the couple's relationship in a fantastical, romanticised way.
After much emotional struggle, he still fails to pluck up his courage. Hesitant, apprehensive and unable to face up with the disease, the despondent Bufan can only confide incessantly in Yuhang. He tries to avoid facing up with reality and when Xinya tries to get intimate with him, he escapes. Xinya starts to wonder if her mother had been right about his infidelity, which leaves him speechless. Thinking that he had indeed been unfaithful, the aggrieved Xinya presses him for an absolute answer, which Bufan can’t provide.
On August 16, 1998, Silvio decided to rob his neighbors: 71-year-old Giuseppa and 75-year-old Francesco "Frenc" Savario Cassar. After he swallowed some pills and drank some pills to pluck up courage, he rang the Cassars' doorbell, surprising Giuseppa with a knife when she opened the door. He stabbed her in the stomach and right arm, but she managed to fight back, calling upon her brother for help. Mangion saw Francesco and lunged at him, fatally stabbing him in the chest.
Trap Street tells the story of a young digital map-making surveyor, Li Qiuming, who works for a digital mapping company in a city in Southern China. During his spare time, he makes a little extra money by helping private clients to install CCTV cameras in places he has identified on his maps. One day, he finds an attractive young woman, and deciding to pluck up the courage to meet her, he tells her about his hobbies and the nature of his job. Her name is Guan Lifen.
Will and Ash start a relationship but when Will discovers Ash is visiting Anna for a work experience placement and hasn't told him, he contemplates killing her. Will visits his mother and tells her that his new girlfriend has been lying to him. Anna is unaware that it is Ash but is concerned that Will's new girlfriend might meet the same fate as Texas. Will lures Ash to a cliff edge and tries to pluck up the courage to push her off but changes his mind when Ash tells him the truth about visiting Anna.
After finishing the Karim's property he breaks the news that he is leaving to Trevor and hints that it is unlikely he will return. Meanwhile, Diane is adamant that Paul is about to propose and even instructs Trevor to show Paul the engagement ring she wants. Trevor 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. Eventually Trevor informs Diane that Paul is leaving and she reacts with anger and disbelief.
Alexander considered that 'neurotic characters of this type are more easily accessible to psychoanalysis than patients with symptom neuroses...[due] to the fact that in the latter the patient has regressed from alloplasticity to autoplasticity; after successful analysis he must pluck up courage to take action in real life'. Otto Fenichel however took issue with Alexander on this point, maintaining that 'The pseudo- alloplastic attitude of the neurotic character cannot be changed into a healthy alloplastic one except by first being transformed, for a time, into a neurotic autoplastic attitude, which can then be treated like an ordinary symptom neurosis'.
However Rimmer can't pluck up the courage to grab it, and the evil Lister throws imprisons him in the hold aboard Starbug with Kryten, who found the dead bodies of the four Kinatowowi who boarded earlier (the evil Lister had never left the ship, having killed his escorts before going into hiding to heal from the wounds they inflicted on him). The evil Lister emerges from the ship and locates the rest of the crew demanding the solar-powered escape pod to allow him to leave the planet. As well as this, he shoots Lister in the genitals with the radiation gun rendering him sterile. Meanwhile, The Rage is approaching again.
In their meeting at XS after a tour of the studio Rosen told the band that after finding out Terry had a police record that made them unwilling to do deals with him but they still wanted the band. The band met at the twins house where they had already talked to their parents who suggested they took the offer. Glenn was unwilling to work without Terry and suggested he started a new band with Buddy but did not think they could get anywhere with Terry as their manager. Buddy went to talk to his father about it but could not pluck up the courage.
It is home to Fiji's most skillful makers of tapa cloth (masi), rock paintings and one of the world's most exclusive resorts. The masi comes from the bark of the paper mulberry tree and all over the island there are small clearings in the forest which have been planted with this tree. A visit to any of the island's four villages will bring with it the unceasing and hypnotic sound of heavy wooden clubs striking repeatedly against something solid. If you pluck up enough courage to venture inside the tin shed from whence the sound comes, you will see a sweating woman pounding strips of bark, flattening and softening the fibres sufficiently to make into the highest quality masi.
Geoff is a wimpy bespectacled office worker who constantly tries to pluck up the courage to fellate strange men in toilets or parks ("cottaging" is the slang term), but is always thwarted somehow, and when he finally succeeds with a fellow gay co- worker, he finds that he doesn't really like it (although they end up cuddling instead). In one scene, Geoff attends an evening class in cottaging for beginners at his local college, in which he enters the classroom proudly announcing to the class that he wants to be a cottager, only to be told that the class is for Bengali literature and that the class he is looking for is next door. When Geoff visits Rio de Janeiro for the Carnival, he attempts to perform fellatio on a man dressed as a traffic policeman. The man tells him in Portuguese that he really is a traffic cop (Geoff looks through his phrasebook) and beats him savagely.

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