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dolled up



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, all dolled up . Dressed or fixed up smartly and, often, ostentatiously, usually for a special occasion. For example, There's no need to get all dolled up—it's just a picnic , or They dolled up the classroom for parents' night . This expression alludes to a person or object being as attractive as a pretty doll. It is also put verbally, to doll up , as in I wanted to doll up my apartment before the guests arrived . [ Colloquial ; c. 1900] Also see gussied up .
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Example Sentences

White suburbanites getting dolled up in blackface for Ray Rice Halloween costumes.

And if you feel like getting all dolled up and going out, you can do that.

How I was dolled up in my little, tight-fitting frock coat, hat, and cane!

He described me all dolled up in some ladies' wearing apparel That I wore at a fancy ball.

Oh, I know the best watches have their works dolled up with precious stones.

Davidge ignored the opportunity to say that he had had the privilege of seeing Miss Webling all dolled up.

Anyhow, she's looking forward to seeing you all dolled up in the things to-night, and it'll be a blow for her if you're not.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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