to start being brave and dealing with a difficult situation
If I were in charge I'd put a car here to cover the approach track and a man up here with night glasses and a radio.
It seems he manned up and told the truth.
Now we’ve got to man up and take care of ourselves.
One day in the summer of 1969 Frank was asked to drive a man up to Belfast.
`I gave your man up there a hundred dollars to let me go back tomorrow night.
mans up
manning up
manned up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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