APAD: Keep your chin up.

 

Meaning: Always remain cheerful in the face of problems

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My source says that this phrase, sometimes shortened to just "chin up," was made

in the USA and as late as 1990!

 

Life is hard. Many things are out of our control. Other problems are often more 

imagined than real and fanned by interests that stand to gain from our fear

(e.g., disease mongering). A totally rational person may not exist, but we can

always try to practice what this idiom commands. Make some jokes, have a laugh,

move around and sweat a bit, have a good sleep, and come back to face the 

challenge.

所有跟帖： 

• Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all the -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 10:10:52

• circumstances…tomorrow is another day. Keep our chin up. ：）） -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 10:12:22

• I'd keep my chin up to board my flight tomorrow -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 10:39:28

• Have a great trip! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 10:44:05

• Back to China? Have a safe and wonderful trip! -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 10:46:24

• 3個小時前收到加航的online checkin通知，還有一行，所有人到達上海必須出示covid - 證明，WTF -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 13:50:05

• 還好不是登機前才發現這個郵件 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 13:50:32

• Can you bring a test kit and show them right there? -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 14:17:29

• Ooops, 那現在拿到covid 證明了嗎？ -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 17:57:21

• Good trip ! -Oona- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 11:59:01

• 樂觀向上 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 11:40:45

• 讚！ 我這幾天看midnight in the garden of good and evil. -Oona- ♀ (120 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 12:03:42

• Isn’t aloofness or eccentricity in the eye of the beholder? -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 14:21:34

• kind of cute to me:) they just live in their own worlds. -Oona- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 14:28:55

• That’s what I thought. Isolated, oblivious, trying to hold -7grizzly- ♀ (37 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 14:34:03

• Exactly ！ -Oona- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 14:57:43

• Similar to the British expression : keep a stiff upper lip. -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 13:32:20

• Both are in my dictionary. I thought “chin up” too young :) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 14:25:55

• Concise and practical. Thanks. -唐宋韻- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 16:28:31

• Thank you! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2023 postreply 17:32:52