steel oneself for

steel oneself for someone or something

to prepare oneself for someone or something difficult or unpleasant; to get ready to face someone or something. Aunt Helen is coming for a visit. We should steel ourselves for her. I think something is going wrong. We had better steel ourselves for a shock.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yima	-	Persian Mythology
Coley	['kəuli]
Mattias	mah-TEE-ahs (German)	German, Swedish
Stefani	STEF-ə-nee	English
JolÁNka	-	Hungarian (Rare)
Meint	MIENT	Dutch