cheer up

Idioms  

1. Become or make happy, raise the spirits of, as in This fine weather should cheer you up. This term may also be used as an imperative, as Shakespeare did (2 Henry IV, 4:4): “My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself.” [Late 1500s]

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cheer up

BTS blew up streaming records when it dropped Dynamite in 2020 - a disco-flecked track to cheer up a Covid-weary world, the band said.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

And as an artist, she’s glad that, even as a 16-year-old just beginning her career, she never gave in to the pressure to cheer up her tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

“Maybe the current global situation, be it geopolitical or macroeconomic, does not lead people to cheer up and to open bottles of Champagne.”

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

Voters started to cheer up about the economy.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2024

“Maybe it’s their way of saying for us to cheer up, to have hope,” Sticky said.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart