Chin up!
informal phrase

- something you say to someone in a difficult situation in order to encourage them to be brave and try not to be sad

Cambridge Dictionary

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Origin

The origin of the expression ‘keep your chin up’ is late 19th to early 20th century America and it has a close relationship with the expression “keep a stiff upper lip”.

The first printed reference comes from an October, 1900 edition of the Pennsylvania newspaper The Evening Democrat: “Keep your chin up. Don’t take your troubles to bed with you – hang them on a chair with your trousers or drop them in a glass of water with your teeth.”

It is unclear exactly where the phrase originated. Some speculate it replaced an older term in Britain keep your pecker up, from around 1840.

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The CHIN-UP physical fitness exercise

The chin-up (or chin or chinup) is also a strength training exercise for strengthening muscles such as the latissimus dorsi and biceps, which extend the shoulder and flex the elbow, respectively.

The chin-up exercise is used by uniformed services around the world to assess the physical fitness of its members. In order to be accepted into and remain in service, a candidate needs to carry out a certain number of chin-ups to a prescribed technique. For example:

US Rangers, at least six chin-ups, and Canadian parachutists, at least seven in two minutes.

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SMUGGLE OWAD into a conversation
say something like:

“CHIN UP! It’ll soon be the weekend.”

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Thanks to Oli for inspiring today’s OWAD

Nice weekend!