| [ 중세 유럽 귀족 작위 ] Nobility - Duke/Duchess, Marquis/Marquise, Count/Countess, Viscount/Viscountess, Baron/Baroness (0) | 2023.02.01 |
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| clan, prominence, seize, fulfill, I’m in (0) | 2023.01.31 |
| ordinary, extraordinary (0) | 2023.01.30 |
| [ 사진 찍는 상황에 쓰는 영어 ] get a picture of, watch out, squeeze in, embalm, scoot (0) | 2023.01.29 |
| baton(발음), hands off, that's on me, tapestry (0) | 2023.01.29 |
The origin of the phrase comes from 19th century Great Britain, derived from those bucks or dandies who were regarded as the acme of snappy dressing in the Regency period. (In its turn, that word came from buck in the sense of the animal, and had a slightly older meaning still that suggested male gaiety or spirit, with unsubtle suggestions of rutting deer.)
In its dandified sense buck up first meant to dress smartly, for a man to get out of those comfortable old clothes and into something drop-dead gorgeous. Since to do so was often a fillip to the spirit, the phrase shifted sometime around the 1880s to its modern meaning.
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| live wire (0) | 2020.12.08 |
| stand one's ground, hold one's ground (0) | 2020.12.07 |
| apples to apples, apples to oranges, apples and oranges (0) | 2020.11.28 |
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