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spruce-up
[ sproos-uhp ]
noun
- an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
spruce up
verb
- adverb to make (oneself, a person, or thing) smart and neat
Word History and Origins
Origin of spruce-up1
Idioms and Phrases
Make neat and trim, as in She spruced up the chairs with new cushions . This idiom originated in the late 1500s as simply spruce but had acquired up by 1676.Example Sentences
A decade ago, they decided for a holiday botox spruce-up mit smooth-out.
The lake appeared to be inclosed on three sides by amphitheatric mountains, black with spruce up to the gray walls of rock.
Well, you want ter kind of spruce up a bit before you do that, for you don't look very fine now, Carrots.
The canvas men would hurry to the “lot” to put up the tents while we remained behind to spruce up for the parade.
The canvas men would hurry to the "lot" to put up the tents while we remained behind to spruce up for the parade.
I was going to tell you about the way Fessor laughed when I tried to spruce up and preen my feathers.
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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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