| 词汇 | cheer up |
| 词源 | cheer up; cheer up—the worst is yet to come. The British have been using the expression cheer up since at least 1597. It took over three centuries but an Americanism finally managed to cheerfully deflate these encouraging words, with cheer up— the worst is yet to come, first recorded in 1920. |
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