Term used to assuage a
suffering person and encourage them to persist or endure.
To validate and affirm one to press on.
Metaphor to
keep one's head up and
eyes forward on what lies ahead, opposed to how typically one's gaze tends downward to the ground while in a sullen state.
This will pass, keep your
chin up.
Chin up lads. We're almost through this.
They're that way with everyone that is new, just keep your
chin up.