Laura's mother took a few minutes to spruce her daughter up for the party.
•She spruced up her room each day.
2. Fig. to refurbish or renew someone or something. •Do you think we should spruce this room up a little?
•Yes, let's spruce up this room with new furniture and drapes.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
spruce up — verb 1. make neat, smart, or trim Spruce up your house for Spring titivate the child • Syn: ↑spruce, ↑titivate, ↑tittivate, ↑smarten up, ↑slick up, ↑spiff up … Useful english dictionary
spruce up someone — spruce up (someone/something) to improve the appearance of someone or something. She needed to spruce up her image so she bought tons of new clothes and got a great new hairstyle. The city has to spruce itself up for the Olympics next year … New idioms dictionary
spruce up something — spruce up (someone/something) to improve the appearance of someone or something. She needed to spruce up her image so she bought tons of new clothes and got a great new hairstyle. The city has to spruce itself up for the Olympics next year … New idioms dictionary
spruce up — (someone/something) to improve the appearance of someone or something. She needed to spruce up her image so she bought tons of new clothes and got a great new hairstyle. The city has to spruce itself up for the Olympics next year … New idioms dictionary
spruce — spruce1 [ sprus ] noun count spruce or spruce tree a tall tree that has thin sharp leaves that do not fall off in winter and produces hard brown fruits called cones a. uncount the wood of a spruce spruce spruce 2 [ sprus ] verb ,spruce up phrasal … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
spruce — spruce1 adjective neat and smart. verb (spruce someone/thing up) make a person or place smarter. Derivatives sprucely adverb spruceness noun Origin C16: perh. from spruce2 in the obs. sense Prussian , in the phr. spruce (leather) jerkin. spruce2… … English new terms dictionary
spruce up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms spruce up : present tense I/you/we/they spruce up he/she/it spruces up present participle sprucing up past tense spruced up past participle spruced up to improve the appearance of someone or something The town … English dictionary
ˌspruce sb/sth ˈup — phrasal verb to improve the appearance of someone or something … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
spruce up — PHRASAL VERB If something is spruced up, its appearance is improved. If someone is spruced up, they have made themselves look very smart. [be V ed P] Many buildings have been spruced up... [V n P] In the evening we spruced ourselves up a bit and… … English dictionary
Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose — Infobox Film name = Yogi and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose caption = director = Ray Patterson producer = William Hanna Joseph Barbera writer = starring = Daws Butler Don Messick Frank Welker music = editing = distributor = Worldvision… … Wikipedia
smarten up — verb 1. make neat, smart, or trim Spruce up your house for Spring titivate the child • Syn: ↑spruce up, ↑spruce, ↑titivate, ↑tittivate, ↑slick up, ↑spiff up … Useful english dictionary
