take heart
idiomatic phrase
: to gain courage or confidence : to begin to feel better and more hopeful
Take heart; things will get better soon.
While teams like the Indians and the Red Sox face grueling Septembers, the A's … can take heart in having survived their most difficult stretch.—
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Sports IllustratedMovements against any form of repression can take heart from a historical method that demonstrates that much of what has been produced by history can also be dismantled.—Nicholas B. Dirks
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As the world’s wealthiest men team up to impose maximum harm on the world by embracing Nazism and partnering with Putin, one of the world’s most lethal dictators, please take heart.
—Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
And Conclave, which led the BAFTA nominations with 12, can take heart in the fact of two recent Best Picture winners, Green Book and CODA, that did that feat without a Directing nomination (each won Best Picture with also Screenplay and Supporting Actor awards).
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
Harris should take heart that the last four vice presidents who ran for president as incumbents and lost had numerous successes after their losses, including landing in the White House on a second try.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
But take heart, ink aficionados: Scientists have found that fluorescent laser imaging can return even 1200-year-old tattoos—in this case, etched into the mummified skin of ancient Peruvian people (seen above)—to their original, highly intricate glory.
—Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 13 Jan. 2025
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Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
And Conclave, which led the BAFTA nominations with 12, can take heart in the fact of two recent Best Picture winners, Green Book and CODA, that did that feat without a Directing nomination (each won Best Picture with also Screenplay and Supporting Actor awards).
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
Harris should take heart that the last four vice presidents who ran for president as incumbents and lost had numerous successes after their losses, including landing in the White House on a second try.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
But take heart, ink aficionados: Scientists have found that fluorescent laser imaging can return even 1200-year-old tattoos—in this case, etched into the mummified skin of ancient Peruvian people (seen above)—to their original, highly intricate glory.
—Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Take heart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20heart. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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