to dress up
- Fuente de la expresión
- The New Oxford Thesaurus of English
- Variantes
- to be (all) dressed-up
- Contexto
- There was much excitement over the new clothes and Father and Mother Squirrel were as delighted as the children. I wish you could have seen the Squirrel family all dressed up in their finery. Skiffet fell in love with a cunning red sweater, and Skud took possession of a tiny pair of blue overalls.
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Julia Greene
- Título de la fuente
- Whiffet Squirrel [e-book]
- Año
- 2006
- Web
- http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23522/23522.txt
- Observaciones
- This phrase also means 'to wear a fancy dress/costume'
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Sin definir