take heart

phrase

: to gain courage or confidence : to begin to feel better and more hopeful

Take heart; things will get better soon.

… the [Oakland] A's … can take heart in having survived their most difficult stretch.

—Sports Illustrated

Movements against any form of repression can take heart from a historical method that demonstrates that much of what has been produced by history can also be dismantled.

—Nicholas B. Dirks

Word History

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for take heart

• counterpart
• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart