psych up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Cameras trail the athletes as they psych up for their heats with cue-the-“Rocky”-theme-song intensity.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
It is an argument that, at the very least, jibes with the person who greets each football player as he gets off the bus and who races onto the field to psych up the “polis.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2014
Perhaps foolishly, this week I tried to psych up my son, who isn’t looking forward to returning to his state elementary school in Beijing and those new characters.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2012
"As Freud said to Jung in Vienna, you can psych up too much for a darts match."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2012
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