pluck up

British  

verb

1. to pull out; uproot

2. to muster (courage, one's spirits, etc)

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Example Sentences

But Ecclesiastes got it right about everything having a season, “a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.”

From Los Angeles Times

Following a speedy rise, Tom played in a World Cup final in 2019 at the age of 21, which his brother was allowed to watch after a social media campaign #GetBenToJapan helped him pluck up the courage to ask if he could miss Sale's game against Bristol to travel to Japan.

From BBC

It took me 10 minutes to pluck up the courage to call him, to ask if he and his partner were all right.

From BBC

"In my case, I was 14 and 15, for me to pluck up the courage - I didn't even tell my family," he said.

From BBC

But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the ‘Mansion of Bliss’, as Meg called it.

From Literature