What does it mean?
Being brave means staying calm and behaving well when things are hard. Hemingway used the phrase "grace under pressure" to describe having guts.
Key vocabulary
- grace
- calm, elegant behaviour
- under pressure
- in a difficult, stressful situation
Who said it?
Ernest Hemingway: American novelist (1899–1961).
These exact words are widely credited to Ernest Hemingway, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.