Meanings of get up in English

No woman should overdress in her own house; it is the worst taste.

A bodice and overdress of white cretonne flowered with red roses.

It's not the dress, she said, taking the overdress off.

Colonial overdress and bodice of white, brocaded with pale-blue roses.

You never want to be at a party underdressed, so I always tend to overdress.

That's not even getting into what your prink government used to do.

In flowers that prink the earth, and stars that gem the skies.

We'll miss it all if you stop to prink.

Now you go and prink up for dinner.

You don't know how to prink, do you?

So they had to leave that trick out of the second act.

It takes upward of 1 hour to trick out Eisenhower's Lincoln.

Matt: OK, so just pulling every trick out of the bag?

If we could find that trick out and take it back with us!

A new paint job and custom sounds trick out the machine with Halo flair.

I've kind of always liked to rig out swell when I could.

Get a good rig out, so as to appear to advantage.

With this load he went to the roadside and began to rig out a fence-post.

We must rig out a cot for it there.

Up with the royals and rig out stun'-sails, Mr Wilson, (to the mate).

Now go on in and tog up.

Meet me about half-past seven, Walter, up in the room, all togged up.

It was Del Mar, all togged up and carrying a magazine in his hand.

Observe my lady in curl-papers and my lady togged up for a dinner party.

Probably a football player never had more assistance in togging up for a game.

Later at about 4.30 p.m. he will tog out for hockey practice with the under-14s.

Today marks the first time we, the Irish women's rugby team, will tog out to play in our own national rugby stadium.

The Irish players tog out in men's and mixed gender teams, with two teams carrying European Champions titles into this bigger arena.

In silk, with a trademark Latin, the plutocrat's wife appears, and I can afford but satin to tog out my dimpled dears.

Wee winter sports fans can tog out in baby snow suits, mini goggles and the wonderfully warm and waterproof Molehill Snow Mocs (left).

Tis the season to dress up your home with the season's best.

Look, maybe he just wanted to dress up the discovery a bit.

Any effort to dress up would have simply been in vain, anyway.

I asked incredulously, mentally sorting through our box of dress up clothes.

While you've been playing dress up, I've come up with a plan.

Hermoine pushed a tray of honeyed figs out of a slave's hands.

I knew he wasn't figged out for nothing, put in Jock.

Why, I am figged out like a princess, and I never wear sabots now.

Well, and ain't they figged out!

It was not in the least to blame; and it seems most unreasonable to have expected it to bear figs out of season.

A man was working his way from the deck up into the rigging.

He twisted it and pulled the back deck up without allowing himself to think.

Just at this moment there seemed to be some excitement on the deck up forward.

He picked the deck up fondly, while a faraway look came into his clouded eyes.

Even though ops was only one deck up, the three-meter climb might as well have been a thousand.

No need to gussy up the place -we won't be staying long.

You don't gussy up a zen garden with autumn ferns.

They make pretty patterns on a whole ham ready for roasting, and can gussy up an otherwise plain apple tart.

Each represents an effort to gussy up the raw economics of land development with the comforting, familiar tropes of the knowledge economy.

Julie Delpy's My Zoe isn't nearly so enchanting, but it does gussy up a ludicrous narrative with proper acting and meringue-soft science fiction.

And I fancy up to now she has had her own way in everything.

You can fancy up my excuse, or think up one of your own-I don't care which.

And look at you, all fancied up and haristocratic, I see.

Haymitch and Effie are all fancied up for the occasion.

There goes the chief, Terry, all fancied up like a bathroom on a German liner!

But I know you've got one more trick up your sleeve: 10.

I learned the trick up in New England, where I come from.

I had no plans, no schemes, no last trick up my sleeve.

But he can't keep the trick up because the trick isn't working.

Was Karlov afraid or had he some new trick up his sleeve?

They were usually fifteen and sixteen hours below deck out of the twenty-four.

I think I heard the deck out there collapse during the Big Rumble.

She wasn't on the deck out back or on the beach with the others.

Get Richard there up the ladder and you be on the big deck out back.

NewsImageFile: The Celebrity Solstice is well decked out for a relaxing holiday.