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lose heart
Idioms and Phrases
Become discouraged, as in The rescuers worked hard for the first few hours, but then they lost heart . This term uses heart in the sense of 鈥渃ourage鈥 or 鈥渟pirit.鈥 [Mid-1800s] Also see lose one's heart to .Example Sentences
Yet, she does not lose heart easily: "Even if the glaciers can't preserve themselves forever, they might still preserve the environment around them for some time. Thus, we call for more multidisciplinary research approaches to converge efforts toward explaining the effects of global warming," she concludes.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is using his Easter sermons to say "we must not lose heart" over the war in Ukraine or the situation in Israel and Palestine.
After Google鈥檚 parent, Alphabet, announced the biggest round of job cuts in its history, senior executives of the tech giant spoke before restive employees to explain why the company had laid off 12,000 of their colleagues so abruptly 鈥 and why those who remain shouldn鈥檛 lose heart.
He told the group鈥檚 members not to lose heart.
Kyiv鈥檚 friends would lose heart.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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