| 单词 | spruce-up |
| 释义 | spruce-up[ sproos-uhp ] / ˈsprusˌʌp / nounan act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like. Origin of spruce-upnoun use of verb phrase spruce up Words nearby spruce-upspruce beetle, spruce budworm, spruce grouse, spruce pine, spruce sawfly, spruce-up, sprucy, sprue, spruik, spruit, sprung Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for spruce-upspruce up verb(adverb) to make (oneself, a person, or thing) smart and neat Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with spruce-upspruce up 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. 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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