(all) dressed up

(all) dressed up
*(all) dressed up
dressed in one's best clothes; dressed formally. (*Typically: be \(all) dressed up; get \(all) dressed up; get someone \(all) dressed up.) •

I really hate to get all dressed up just to go somewhere to eat.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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