Touch
Work up
Work up verb - To produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort.
Both terms in one sentence
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The camera then showed Kazuki taking her hand and directing it toward his pants... where Kazuki was holding an eel that Yuuna was trying to work up the courage to touch.
Source: Innocent Innuendo
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