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"get up the nerve" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to gather or summon the courage or bravery to do something. Example: After months of hesitation, I finally got up the nerve to quit my job and pursue my dream of traveling the world.
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It takes a long time to get up the nerve," one confides.
I'm gonna scream, 'Marry me,' if I can just get up the nerve".
It actually took us five months to get up the nerve to make an offer.
Alexander said he did not get up the nerve to play his cousin until he was a junior in college.
He and I were always kidding around and he couldn't get up the nerve to ask me out.
I was trying to find the right time, the right place – trying to get up the nerve.
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Finally I got up the nerve.
Finally, I got up the nerve to venture inside.
"I got up the nerve and kissed her".
But right then I got up the nerve to get initiated into the Catholic Church.
By 1999 she had gotten up the nerve to fill an album with her own songs.
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