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Sentence #327619

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FeuDRenais FeuDRenais June 27, 2010 June 27, 2010 at 3:29:36 PM UTC link Permalink

"screw up his courage"?

blay_paul blay_paul June 27, 2010 June 27, 2010 at 3:32:21 PM UTC link Permalink

Valid, but not that common. Possibly British English.

Google quote:

Lady Macbeth, after impugning her husband's manliness, urges him, as we might say, to "screw up his courage."

FeuDRenais FeuDRenais June 27, 2010 June 27, 2010 at 3:46:54 PM UTC link Permalink

Fair enough. Though it sounds funny to my American ears, where "screw up" almost always means to "to mess up" (and so the sentence takes quite an opposite meaning).

Perhaps we replace this with "muster his courage" (assuming that's valid in British)?

blay_paul blay_paul June 27, 2010 June 27, 2010 at 3:52:07 PM UTC link Permalink

> Perhaps we replace this with "muster his courage" (assuming that's valid in British)?

It is valid, but there's no need to replace - we can make that an alternative translation of the Japanese.

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That's me - The coward unable to screw up his courage and find out the truth.

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That's me - the coward unable to screw up his courage and find out the truth.

edited by FeuDRenais, June 27, 2010