to develop
to improve your behaviour or your work
used for telling someone that if they do not improve their behaviour or their work they must leave
Another enjoyable spectator sport is examining how people shape up in their swimming kit.
Education is shaping up as the hottest issue on the agenda.
Nine children have died in what is shaping up to be one of the worst years for flu in two decades.
The new boss has warned Roger to shape up.
This year is shaping up to be one of my busiest yet!
shapes up
shaping up
shaped up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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