- lose nerve
- lose (your) nerve
to fear doing something.
Jim lost his nerve and wouldn't try to ski down the hill.
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lose nerve
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lose your nerve — lose (your) nerve to fear doing something. Jim lost his nerve and wouldn t try to ski down the hill … New idioms dictionary
lose your nerve — phrase to suddenly become too frightened to do something that you intended to do Thesaurus: to be, or to become afraid or frightenedsynonym Main entry: lose … Useful english dictionary
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lose — /lu:z/ verb past tense and past participle lost /lst/ 1 NOT HAVE ANY MORE (T) to stop having something that is important to you or that you need: I can t afford to lose my job, I have a family to support. | I lost a lot of money on that deal. |… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
lose — [[t]lu͟ːz[/t]] ♦ loses, losing, lost 1) VERB If you lose a contest, a fight, or an argument, you do not succeed because someone does better than you and defeats you. [V n] A C Milan lost the Italian Cup Final... [V n] The government lost the… … English dictionary
nerve — n. assurance gall (colloq.) 1) to display, have nerve 2) the nerve to + inf. (she had the nerve to ask for another day off) self confidence 3) to lose one s nerve sensitivity 4) a raw nerve (his remark hit a raw nerve) band of nervous tissue 5)… … Combinatory dictionary
