brave it out
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Face danger or a difficult situation with courage. For example, They had far fewer votes than the opposition, but they decided to brave it out . [Late 1500s]
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Also, brazen it out . Boast or swagger, act with impudent bravado. For example, They hadn't been invited but decided to stay and brazen it out . [Mid-1500s]
Example Sentences
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Robert Loper will brave it out as Berenger, the man who manages to resist conformity, Arne Zaslove will direct, and film projections will take the place of props to provide the scenery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a man in the academy'll speak to him; he may not mind that for a while, but I think he won't brave it out very long.
From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton
She knew that the end had not been reached, but she was determined to brave it out; there was nothing else to do,—there had been nothing else from the first.
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont
"Yes, Mr. Gerald Chandos did," trying to brave it out, but still appearing the reverse of comfortable.
From Vagabondia 1884 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
On this Bessie really began to cry, and Helen, though she tried to brave it out, trembled.
From Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic by Farnsworth, Ethel N.
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