if clothes do up in a particular way, they fasten in that way
to dress someone in special clothes or put make-up on them
to fasten something
to repair, paint, and improve an old building, car, boat etc
to tie or arrange your hair in a particular way
to wrap something in paper or cloth in an attractive way
Angie was done up in a silky black dress and fishnet stockings.
Annie walked away, but not in a hurry, she stopped to do up the six buttons of her coat.
Do up your shoelaces.
He held a small parcel done up in coloured paper and ribbon.
Her shiny dark hair was done up in a ponytail.
His hands lifting her against the trunk of the tree, trembling, trying to do up the buttons of her dress, staring at her, white-faced.
How odd that Maurice can do up a whole house yet not comb his hair.
It’s a lovely cottage, but it needs doing up a bit.
She had spent hours doing herself up for the party.
The dress does up at the back.
We spent our weekends doing up a 1934 Rolls Royce.
You don’t need to do up the top button.
does up
doing up
did up
done up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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