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Difference between Keep one’s pecker up and Put someone’s pecker up

keep one’s pecker up—(UK coll.) keep one’s spirits up:

  • Charles could not eat, in spite of the rough kindness of one of the warders, who adjured him to keep his pecker up.

put someone’s pecker up(coll.) make smb. angry; put a person out of temper:

  • He thinks he can do what he likes with I am not quite sure about that, if he puts up my pecker.