to chin up
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5.0
- phrasal verb
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hacer dominadas
- She's relaxed and forgets to hold her chin up.
- chin-up bar
Examples
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"Tyler jerked his chin up the ruined street.
Fiction book (1999) -
To improve your upper body strength, practice doing a chin up on the bar in your gym.
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I do one thing, but I've noticed when I get hyper and I add this, this, that to it, pull up, chin up sit ups, I get discouraged.
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If you can do three chin ups, try increasing that number to five this week.
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He prepared for the fitness test by training to complete a chin up without assistance.
Synonyms
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7.9
To pull yourself up by your hands until the lower part of your face reaches a bar
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase evokes the literal image of raising one's chin (chin + up) to signal confidence, so a learner who knows the words may infer it encourages a positive attitude; however the shift from a physical posture to the pragmatic meaning 'stay positive' is a conventionalized metaphor rather than a fully compositional meaning. Because the emotional/pragmatic sense is derived indirectly from the words and requires cultural/pragmatic knowledge, it is not fully transparent for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Chin up is the name of the exercise where you pull yourself up on a bar until your chin is even with or above the bar. So the phrase means 'to pull yourself upward while hanging from a bar'.