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noun ADJ. considerable, great, outstanding, tremendous | moral, physical Caring for elderly relatives requires considerable moral courage. VERB + COURAGE require, take It takes courage to sing in public. | have I didn't have the courage to tell him. | show | find, pluck up I finally plucked up enough courage to speak to Rachel.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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courage
verbs
have courage
• She certainly has a lot of courage.
show courage
• The pilot showed great skill and courage.
summon (up)/muster your courage
(= make yourself feel brave )
• Summoning all her courage, she got up to see what the noise was.
bolster your courage
(= make it stronger )
• They sang and whistled as they marched, to bolster their courage.
sb’s courage fails
(= is not great enough to do something )
• I was going to jump but my courage failed at the last moment.
something gives you courage
(= makes you feel that you have courage )
• My mother nodded, which gave me the courage to speak up.
phrases
have the courage to do something
• I didn’t have the courage to say what I really thought.
find the courage to do something
• You must find the courage to deal with the problem.
pluck up/screw up the courage to do something
(= try to find it )
• He was trying to pluck up the courage to end their relationship.
lack the courage to do something
• He lacked the courage to look her full in the face.
It takes courage to do something/sth takes courage
(= needs courage )
• It takes courage to make a big change in your life like that.
adjectives
great courage
• The men had fought with great courage.
enough/sufficient courage
• Harry plucked up enough courage to ask her out.
personal courage
(= the courage of one particular person )
• Her recovery owed a great deal to her personal courage.
moral courage
(= the courage to do the right thing )
• He said his faith gave him the moral courage to survive his ordeal.
physical courage
(= the courage to do something physically dangerous or difficult )
• It seemed strange that someone of great physical courage could be so unsure of himself in other ways.
political courage
(= the courage to take risks in politics )
• Do our politicians have the political courage to make unpopular decisions?
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In addition to the idiom beginning with COURAGE, Also see DUTCH COURAGE; PLUCK UP (ONE'S COURAGE).
American Heritage Idioms
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noun
bravery:
Courage was needed for the ordeal.
Simple Definitions
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courage
the quality of being brave when you are facing a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you are very ill:
• the courage of the soldiers • She showed great courage throughout her illness. • He finally plucked up the courage (= found the courage ) to ask her for a date.
bravery
courage in a dangerous or frightening situation, especially when you are fighting in a war:
• He won a medal for bravery during the Iraq war.
guts
informal the courage and determination to do something difficult or unpleasant:
• It must have taken a lot of guts for him to say that.
heroism
very great courage in a dangerous situation:
• The President praised the heroism of the firefighters.
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