APAD: Screw your courage to the sticking place

Meaning: Be firm and resolute.

Background:  This line is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, 1605:

 

     Lady Macbeth:

     `We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.'

 

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If I were Macbeth, I'd take a long cruise vacation or maybe even retire right

there after hearing the witches. "Look," I'd tell the lady. "Now that I've got

the mandate, I don't need to lift a finger. Didn't ask for it. Nay. It's fate.

What courage? Big hassle. Not worth it. Off Duncan? You outta ya mind?" and if

she was still there, "Read books and chill, enjoy physical labor, and memento

mori. 'Ease your cravings and harden your bones.' Give life a chance."

"Double, double toil & trouble; Fire burn & cauldron bubble"

Agree w/ U. just not everyone understands/believesStoicism

Nothing's as it's cracked up to be :-)

was shocked at first,50% use of screw for me is ruin, slang

yeah, it is straight

Remember you must die. True. Mori = death?, mortality

I used to volunteer filling tax returns when a girl came up

and said "They (the government) only give you a break if you let them

screw you." I didn't know what to say.

Something like that. 除死之外没大事 :-)

除生死之外无大事，加个“生”字，当然原文的意思是你说的这个。向死而生：）

b4 death comes, "Give life a chance" ;-)