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cheer someone up

to make a sad person happy. When Bill was sick, Ann tried to cheer him up by reading to him. Interest rates went up, and that cheered up all the bankers.

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"Well, cheer up," the Author resumed; "fame comes at the most unexpected times. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context Oh I dare say, Miss La Creevy,' returned Mrs Nickleby, with a petulance not unnatural in her unhappy circumstances, 'it's very easy to say cheer up, but if you had as many occasions to cheer up as I have had--and there,' said Mrs Nickleby, stopping short. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context Come, cheer up, old man; there's no use in losing your grip and going back to this child's play merely because this big sunspot is drifting across your shiny new disk. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context			Cheats never prosper check check back check bags through check in check into check off check on check out check out the plumbing check over check that check through check up check up on check with Check, please checks and balances checkup cheek cheek by jowl cheer cheer for cheer on cheer to the echo cheer up cheese cheese off cheese-paring cheesed off cherry cherry-pick cheshire chest chew chew ass chew at chew away chew cud chew off chew on chew out chew over chew own tobacco chew the cud chew the fat chew up chicken chicken feed chicken out chicken out on			Cheektowaga Cheektowaga (town), New York Cheektowaga (town), New York Cheektowaga Central High School Cheektowaga Central School District Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra Cheektowaga scream Cheektowaga scream Cheektowaga scream cheeky cheep cheep cheeped cheeper cheeping cheeps cheer cheer cheer cheer Cheer Coaches Association of Michigan cheer for cheer on cheer on Cheer Plus Allstar Booster Club cheer to the echo cheer to the echo cheer to the echo cheer to the echo cheer to the echo cheer up Cheer Young Machinery Works Co., Ltd. cheered cheered cheered cheered to the echo cheered to the echo cheered to the echo cheered to the echo cheered up cheered up cheerer cheerer cheerer cheerful cheerful cheerful cheerful cheerful consent cheerful giver cheerful willingness cheerfully cheerfully Cheerfully Start Over cheerfulness cheerfulness cheerfulness Cheerhchen Ho cheerier cheeriest cheerily

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