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    Default “Don’t get your hopes up”


    "Some people don’t set goals or New Year’s resolutions because they’re afraid to hope. Well-meaning families and friends tell them, “Don’t get your hopes up,” for that new job, new relationship, or new level of fitness. “You’ll only be disappointed.”
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    1.get something up: prepare or organize a project or piece of work

    2. get up # 9. informal to be involved in


    I couldn't catch the exact meaning of the underlined phrasal verb since I don’t know if there is a subtle difference between the above-mentioned definitions. However, I think that the main idea of that line is this
    "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

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    Default Re: “Don’t get your hopes up”

    Yes, we sometimes tell a person "Don't get your hopes up" when we think his hopes are unlikely to be fulfilled.
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    Default Re: “Don’t get your hopes up”

    Can it be a synonym for "don't raise your hope"?
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    Default Re: “Don’t get your hopes up”

    Synonyms refer to words, not sentences.

    Your sentence means approximately the same thing as Odessa Dawn's, but is unidiomatic. In other words a fluent English speaker would be extremely unlikely to utter it. The sentence supplied by Odessa Dawn in the title of this thread is what one would expect to hear.
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