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brace yourself

Prepare yourself mentally or emotionally for hearing something unpleasant, out of place or inappropriate.
"...they dropped the ball and now, brace yourself -- they're making us pay for it."
brace yourself by Carlos Luis March 23, 2007

Brace Yourself

Phrase used when something unbelievable wonderful is about to happen to someone else or even to yourself and without this warning the person's heart might stop -- at least for a moment!"
"Brace yourself, you're about to get the ride of your life!"
Brace Yourself by Lucas Watzenrode September 6, 2018

brace yourself

In the small Norfolk town of Kings Lynn and the villages surrounding, 'bracing yourself' is a term followed by a face similar to a gurn. The facial expression is called 'a brace'or 'the brace' with an 'urghh' sound attached
Rob:Brace yourself Jamzo!
Jamzo:*Braces* URGHHHHHH!
brace yourself by Jamzo October 27, 2007

Brake yourself foo 

Means to slow your roll, check yourself.
I know you not talkin about my Momma? Brake yourself foo.
Brake yourself foo by msapriol September 1, 2016
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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