if you cheer a place up, you make it look brighter by adding colourful things
to become less sad, or to make someone feel less sad
used for telling someone to try to be happier
And pray that the weather cheers up.
Cheer up a dull room with fresh flowers.
Half of those surveyed said that they came back to films they had seen before because they felt nostalgic or needed cheering up.
I tried to cheer him up, but he just kept staring out of the window.
In these dark days of gloom one would think they had timed the announcement to cheer up the nation.
It will cheer up a country in this difficult economic time.
My husband has been in a bad mood recently, but today he has cheered up.
She cheers up for a moment at the sight of a bunch of flowers.
This match represented so much more than an exercise in cheering up a team that had landed flat on their face three days earlier.
‘Cheer up,’ he said. ‘It can’t be that bad.’
cheers up
cheering up
cheered up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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