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Meanings of do up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "doll up"
Examples for "doll up"
1
It's a pleasure to doll up for a man like you, Peter.
2
Chris says: All that cross needs is a Chu Chu doll up there.
3
I held the crude doll up for the class to inspect.
4
And we'll doll up our stuff from coming out soon.
5
Nor will holding a plastic doll up to your boob.
1
The price tag is pretty up there too, making it a definite boujee product.
2
But I'm pretty up-to-speed on the new model's features, so I'll reference that as needed.
3
Although things will still be pretty up and down it won't be quite so unpredictable.
4
But, knowing my mom, it was probably a nudge to pretty up and find a man.
5
This cruiser cleverly combines a sort of pre-war to early 1950s design with some pretty up-to-date engineering.
1
So I often change and glam up in the car.
2
It's an opportunity to ditch the everyday workaday gear and glam up for a celebratory and joyful affair.
3
Christmas frock -I don't often get the chance these days, with my little boy, to really glam up.
4
The doormen are ruthless in their entrance policy, so glam up or you'll be left standing in the cold.
5
They're expected to glam up for an evening reception at the Sydney Opera House ahead of tonight's official opening ceremony.
Usage of do up in English
1
My brother was never in a position to do up the house.
2
So what do the local yokels do up there on a Friday?
3
And, Graham, tell Buckham to do up a dozen dinner-napkins in paper.
4
Arbeely had had to show him how to do up the buttons.
5
I bet I could find plenty for you to do up here.
6
Then I tried on the dress and couldn't do up the zip.
7
At times, she can do up to four letters per minute.
8
Which isn't very easy to do up in Spooking these days.
9
After that there was a great to- do up in the hollow.
10
There came a tap at the door-thechambermaid to do up the room.
11
MORAL: Work is a Snap, but the Intermissions do up the Nervous System.
12
She wants me to do up her fruit, I guess. Cerissa was mistaken.
13
There's work for me to do up yonder at the house.
14
I have some things to do up-stairs, and then I'll retire.
15
It takes at least an hour to do up a Chinese woman's hair.
16
And I must tell Diana tonight, for she'll want to do up hers.
This collocation consists of:
Do up through the time
Do up across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common