buck up

What’s continued to set the Fosters apart is their work bucking up evacuees and neighbors.

That said, telling voters to buck up and realize how good they have it would also be a bad move.

And it has attracted a parade of high-profile visitors to buck up Trump, including the speaker of the House.

To picture Baldwin as caring enough about Capote’s sadness over losing access to his exclusionary patrons to drop what he’s doing and devote a “buck up, buttercup” day on the town with Capote beggars belief.

The officials were also trying to buck up their own staff.