"psyche up" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to mentally prepare or motivate oneself for a task or challenge. Example: "I have a big presentation tomorrow, so I need to psyche myself up tonight." or "The coach gave a motivational speech to psych up the team before the championship game."
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There's lots of cheering and shouting like Dads at sports day and the owners don't even seem to have to psyche up the cocks beforehand; it seems that if you put two of the same sex in the same space, they peck each other apart.
New to Dragon Quest VIII is the tension system, which allows the player to choose the "Psyche Up" command for a character during battle.
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Killing the mandate also psyches up some on the right who could have opposed the bill for other reasons, Joe Antos, a health policy wonk at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me.
They became his favorite psyche-up music as I drove him to soccer games in subsequent years.
A late try lent the scoreline a harsher – if more appropriate – feel, but the suspicion remains that, deep down, once all the psyche-ups and notes to self had been stripped away, Scotland were not that bothered about winning this one.
"I knew this song when it was just bad," Stiller's character says when Driver uses Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" as psyche-up music.
Methods will vary from person to person but on the day of your appointment psyche yourself up, listen to fast up-tempo music, get excited, chant something reassuring, pray, whatever helps you overcome nerves.
Instead of panicking, play some music pump up the volume in your room and to psyche yourself up play some fast music such as hip hop or dance music.
Then psyche yourself up to ask for it.
