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Muster up   /mˈəstər əp/   Listen
verb
Muster  v. t.  (past & past part. mustered; pres. part. mustering)  
1.
To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
2.
Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together. "Mustering all its force." "All the gay feathers he could muster."
To muster troops into service (Mil.), to inspect and enter troops on the muster roll of the army.
To muster troops out of service (Mil.), to register them for final payment and discharge.
To muster up, to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to obtain with some effort or difficulty. "One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits."





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"Muster up" Quotes from Famous Books



... here not long before two, and went to work to try and muster up some dinner. I had a cup and saucer, tumbler and three knives and forks, and the rennet, which soon supplied one dish; the negroes brought china in limited quantities; we opened a box of sardines, and coffee, and, with the army bread we brought from Beaufort, fried eggs, and hominy, made a most ...
— Letters from Port Royal - Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) • Various
... a sudden alteration in his manner which warned me that I must muster up all my strength if I would keep my secret till I was quite ready to part ...
— That Affair Next Door • Anna Katharine Green


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