Bite the bullet.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
硬着头皮
to brace oneself to do sth
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to brace oneself to do sth
02
to put a bold face on it
03
to summon up courage
04
to force oneself to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 硬着头皮 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 硬着头皮 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I mustered up my courage and went there.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 硬着头皮.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 硬着头皮.
Directly before
- 我硬着头皮1
Directly after
- 硬着头皮去1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 硬着头皮
What does 硬着头皮 mean in Chinese?
硬着头皮 (yìngzhetóupí) means to brace oneself to do sth.
How do you pronounce 硬着头皮?
硬着头皮 is pronounced yìngzhetóupí.
Is 硬着头皮 an HSK word?
硬着头皮 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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