Meanings of gussy up in английском

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.

Though we've no reason to disbelieve any of these snippets, they do smack of an attempt to gussy up a process that is essentially undramatic.

Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin, maker of the Air Force's prized F-22 Raptor, continues an all-out effort to gussy up the fighter as a billion-dollar jobs program.

Those of you who haven't been to Vegas -well, it's bizarre in sort of a "let's gussy up this car wreck" kind of way.

Phun has been gussied up for the educational market and renamed Algodoo.

We children were fixed up, cleaned up, and gussied up for this occasion.

Its eccentric buildings are splashed around like Christmas decorations, gussied up and eye-catching.

My favourite mental snapshot: seeing her all gussied up at the Gatsby Ball.

They were gussied up to the nines-theway people used to dress for church.

In short: gussying up a gadget with glass beads doesn't mean it suddenly gains quality.

The Mozilla team gussied up the Page Info screen.

In subsequent television appearances, Boyle has been made up, gussied up, fluffed, coiffed and crimped.