put on a brave face

1. see brave face.

Example Sentences

The family put on a brave face in public, with West insisting that the core of their relationship had not altered.

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Antanina said she had to put on a brave face in front of the children, but sometimes needed time alone to cry.

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When she was discharged, she tried to put on a brave face for her medical care providers.

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He tried to put on a brave face, though he knew from his own near-death experiences with the Taliban that the situation was increasingly bleak.

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"There are times where you put on a brave face, you smile, you give the care that's right and when you leave the patient's home you go and talk to your colleagues or maybe shed a few tears," she says.

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