dandy up

verb

verb

Informal To make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance.

But the BBC's insistence meant that he was dragged from his room, dandied up in his best bib and tucker, and stuck in front of a camera to answer crappy questions from Gary Lineker.2005 December 15, Mike Selvey, “England were made to look prize chumps but tour gongs go like that”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

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