'keep your pecker up'?

[Mehrgan]

Hi,
My Cambridge dictionary says this is an old-fashioned idiom. Is there any common idiom meaning the same, in BrE?





(Could 'chin up' have the same meaning here?)

[Tdol]

Keep your chin up has the same meaning. You could approach it from the opposite direction and tell them not to let things get them down.

[SanMar]

Not something you'd say in North America, at least not with that meaning.


Not a teacher.

[Tdol]

I believe it refers to the mouth originally in BrE.

[waflob]

'Keep your pecker up' mean that you should try to stay happy and not let things get you down.

[Wicked Pissah]

where i come from, although we don't use this phrase, my interpretation of "keep your pecker up" is something a woman says to her boyfriend when in the heat of passion. Not sure what it means in Canada....

[Wicked Pissah]

Not something you'd say in North America, at least not with that meaning.


Not a teacher.

<cough>

[emsr2d2]

I think it comes from "pecker" meaning "beak" so the facial link to "mouth" and "chin" both make sense. I would say "chin up" is closest.

The other meaning of "pecker" could lead to some interesting misunderstandings though!