How to Get Your Hopes Up

When you get your hopes up, you're expecting something good to happen. You can cause someone else to be enthusiastic about something and hope that that thing takes place. So let's go through three examples of how I would use this expression. My son at the moment is a perfect example; he wants to get into his mother and father's good books. He has very limited wants: sleep, food and play and toys, gifts, presents. And lastly here, we're turning get into a phrasal verb, get up. This is to become enthusiastic about something that isn't necessarily guaranteed to happen,. It may not happen but you don't know, but you hope it does happen

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