Rachel Chau
2021-07-31 12:07
All Spruced Up phrase
Used to describe someone or something that becomes neat and clean after having been fixed up, dressed up or cleaned up
I was all spruced up for the first date, but she stood me up.
The house looks all spruced up after being covered with a coat of paint.
I was all spruced up for my job interview.
1. Make the inside of something clean or tidy
2. Spend so much money on something that one now has very little left
3. Take or use all the resource or money that a person or organization has
4. Remove parts or people to improve a group or organization
Very clean
Very clean and tidy.
Used to imply that a person's appearance is extremely neat and tidy
1. Used to describe someone that are alert, energetic, and enthusiastic, typically after some refreshing activity.
2. Extremely clean and neat, or well-kept.
This idiom is believed to derive from “Spruce leather” - a material used to make a style of jerkin which ended up being popular among the fashionable. And by the end of the 1500s, "spruce" was used to describe anyone fashionable or neat in appearance.
Do you see anything wrong?
to do something very badly, impropperly.
He make a pig's ear of miscalculating in Math so he got zero for this section.
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