hold your head high

hold your head high
hold your head up/high/ phrase
to not be ashamed of yourself
Thesaurus: to be confident or proudsynonym
Main entry: hold

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hold your head (up) high — see head, 1
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Main Entry:high

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hold your ˈhead high | hold up your ˈhead idiom
to be proud of or not feel ashamed about sth that you have done

She managed to hold her head high and ignore what people were saying.

Main entry:headidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • hold — 1 verb past tense and past participle held IN YOUR HANDS/ARMS 1 a) (T) to have something firmly in your hand or arms: He was holding a knife in one hand. | Can you hold the groceries for me while I open the door? | I held the baby in my arms. |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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