brace up
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What the budding republic needed, he decided, was a man like Matty Fox to brace up its economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Room 312 was Bernard Mannes Baruch, telling the British to brace up, have faith in U.S. policy and goodwill.*
From Time Magazine Archive
No Rigid Rules The authors all brace up their criticisms with an enormous amount of bit-by-bit documentation�nearly all of it gleaned, ironically enough, from the commission's own evidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The newsmen packed up their gear, relieving Molly, who had cringed at the thought of being photographed in her laden condition and having to brace up for a royal reception in Sweden.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
We shall stick here, probably, for a fortnight longer, then go for a week to the Hartz mountains to brace up a little—the baths being very debilitating and the air of Nauheim sedative.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
