buck up one's ideas

verb

to pull one's socks up

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Meanings

verbbuck up one's ideas (third-person singular simple present bucks up one's ideas, present participle bucking up one's ideas, simple past and past participle bucked up one's ideas)

present singular third person bucks up one's ideas · participle present bucking up one's ideas · participle past bucked up one's ideas · past bucked up one's ideas

  1. idiomaticintransitiveto pull one's socks up
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