Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
tirar su di morale
English translation:
cheer somebody up
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Feb 3, 2011 08:56
13 yrs ago
Italian term
tirar su di morale
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al fine di far passare uno stato di angoscia, crisi, tristezza, si deve "tirar su il morale" a qualcuno...
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cheer somebody up
The immediate thought was "to keep somebody's moral/spirits up". But this doesn't convey an improvement in moral, just maintaining it. Hence the alternative of "cheering somebody up".
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cheer (somebody) up
one way
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lauren_m
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Thanks!
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Sarah Jane Webb
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Thank you :)
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Pierluigi Bernardini
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Thank you!
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Maria_Rita
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Grazie ;)
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James (Jim) Davis
: Just to cheer you up a little :)
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every little bit helps :)
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buck them up
a familiar colloquial way of saying it
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lift somebody up
Un'alternativa!
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Note added at 12 mins (2011-02-03 09:08:38 GMT)
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2. lift up - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lift up)
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Note added at 12 mins (2011-02-03 09:08:38 GMT)
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2. lift up - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lift up)
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boost morale spirit
in order to pass a state of anxiety, crisis, sadness, you must boost morale spirit to someone ...
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Oliver Lawrence
: by the way, you would say a) "to boost someone's morale", not "to boost morale to someone" (this Italian "to" construction does not exist in English), and b) "morale" not "morale spirit"
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Draw on (one's) moral fibre / strength within
Idiom: Moral fibre
"Moral fibre is the inner strength to do what you believe to be right in difficult situations Example: He lacked the moral fibre to be leader (In American English the correct spelling is 'fiber'.)"
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/moral fibre.htm...
"Finding the Strength To Overcome Anything"
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"Moral fibre is the inner strength to do what you believe to be right in difficult situations Example: He lacked the moral fibre to be leader (In American English the correct spelling is 'fiber'.)"
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/moral fibre.htm...
"Finding the Strength To Overcome Anything"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aZ6gOBY...
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