Quote:
Originally Posted by eslkorea screw up your courage
to force yourself to be brave and do something that makes you nervous. |
I don't know whether this comes directly from Shakespeare, or whether Shakespeare just embellished it in Lady MacBeth's 'screw your courage to the sticking-place'.
This one's not in the UE list (or is hiding somewhere I haven't looked) - 'to have the courage of your convictions' is to believe in something strongly enough to say so in public; and if you believe in something enough to risk losing money over it you 'put your money where your mouth is'. That
is in the list.
If you believe in something enough not only to talk about it but also to do something about it some Br English speakers use the - originally US, I think - you 'don't just talk the talk, you walk the walk'.
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