词汇 | dress something up |
释义 | Idiom dress something updress (something) up to make something look better or different than it really is.No matter how you dress it up, the fact is that we lost.His business record is a string of failures dressed up as successes. Usage notes: often followed by as, as in the second example Etymology: based on the literal meaning of dress up (= to wear more formal clothes) |
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