NOUN
- a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor)
-
anything with restorative powers
she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
How To Use pick-me-up In A Sentence
- An instant pick-me-up - it adds health and radiance to the skin. Times, Sunday Times
- Herbal teas, or infusions, have become a pick-me-up for those down in the dumps, and a soothing drink when stress levels start soaring.
- So effective is cacao as a pick-me-up that it is being embraced in the party crowd as a healthy alternative to synthetic dance drugs. Times, Sunday Times
- Once such colours must have worked as pick-me-ups for the tired soul; today they are more in tune with the lifestyle of the local people.
- One such confection is the Venetian dessert tiramisu, meaning pick-me-up, which involves first creaming the mascarpone with yolks of egg and a little fresh cream, and then incorporating whipped whites of egg.
- Adding just a drop of peppermint essential oil will act as an emotional pick-me-up to dispel winter blues.
- It is also likely to be taken by healthy individuals as a pick-me-up, as are other ‘lifestyle’ drugs.
- In truth, it is their weekend pick-me-up; their only opportunity to hear and speak the language at which they worked all their student days.
- It is traditional around here to drink brandy with coffee as a morning pick-me-up.
- It never fails, and the uncontrollable sniggering and whooping that follows is one of the best pick-me-ups prescribable.
