brave it out
Idioms-
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
Should she go to that cabin with the light, brave it out there, and carry the lie on further?
From '?19,000' by Burford Delannoy
They may brave it out, hunting for their food as best they can all winter long.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker
She had come forth, Tanqueray knew, to brave it out, to show her serenity, and the coolness of her courage on the dreadful eve.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
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 Sara Beaumont Kennedy
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