doll yourself up
often disapproving— phrasal verb with doll uk/dɒl/us/dɑːl/verb
If a woman dolls herself up, she tries to make herself more attractive by putting on make-up and special clothes:
I'm not going to doll myself up just to go shopping.
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Putting clothes on
- arrayed
- bundle
- bundle (sb) up
- doll
- dolled up
- don
- dress
- fling sth on/off
- get yourself/sb up
- glam
- glam (yourself) up
- make yourself respectable idiom
- put
- rig
- slip
- slip into sth
- throw
- throw sth on
- try sth on
- wrap
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Decorating or making something attractive