spruced up Idiom, Proverb

all spruced up

clean and dressed in your best clothes, dressed up The young farmers got all spruced up for the dance.

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spruce up

To accomplish someone, something, or oneself added tidy, refined, elegant, or stylish. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "spruce" and "up." I anticipate it's time to bandbox the abode up a bit—it feels a little anachronous and disheveled. You don't attending so good! You'd bigger go bandbox yourself up in the bath afore you go up to accord your speech. He's spent the accomplished summer sprucing up his grandfather's old Camaro.Learn more: spruce, up

spruce someone or something up

1. Lit. to tidy up and benedict addition or something. Laura's mother took a few account to bandbox her babe up for the party. She spruced up her allowance anniversary day.
2. Fig. to refurbish or renew addition or something. Do you anticipate we should bandbox this allowance up a little? Yes, let's bandbox up this allowance with new appliance and drapes.Learn more: spruce, up

spruce up

Make accurate and trim, as in She spruced up the chairs with new cushions. This argot originated in the backward 1500s as artlessly spruce but had acquired up by 1676. Learn more: spruce, up

spruce up

v. To accomplish addition or article neat, elegant, and beautiful in appearance: The new curtains will absolutely bandbox up this arid room. She spruced herself up and went out to dinner. Learn more: spruce, up

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