spruce up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To dress or arrangesmartly,elegantly, andneatly; tosmarten.; (idiomatic)Torefresh,revamp; tofreshenorimprovesomething, especially itsappearance.Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot tospruce upthis dark room.2010, Bruce Gilley, “Deng Xiaoping and His Successors (1976 to the present)”, in William A. Joseph, editor,Politics in China: An Introduction‎[1],Oxford University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page114:Hu Yaobang was officially rehabilitated on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth in 2005 and his mausoleum in China Youth League City (Gongqingcheng) in Jiangxi province wasspruced up.2020December 3, Anna Rahmanan, “Christmas trees are, indeed, more expensive this year than last”, inTime Out‎[2]:Here's an interesting effect of a global pandemic that has forced Americans to stay home for nearly 10 months: with less vacation and dine-out options, folks have more money saved up than usual and, given the virtually endless amount of time spent staring at their own four walls, they seem to be more willing than usual to shell out some extra cash tospruce uptheir abodes.

Examples:

EN: I just want to spruce up a bit.
ES: Voy a arreglarme.
EN: I... must spruce up a bit.
ES: Yo... tengo que arreglarme un poco.
EN: His order, for example, to spruce up the ship... didn't come from his pirate captain. It came from the Master of Ballantrae... who was accustomed to disregarding danger.
ES: Por ejemplo, la orden de limpiar y ordenar el barco no fue dada por su capitán pirata, sino por el Señor de Ballantry, que estaba acostumbrado a ignorar el peligro.
EN: On Sunday's I wash. spruce up and go dancing!
ES: El domingo, lavo, plancho y voy a bailar.
EN: - Good heavens. I've got to go home and spruce up.
ES: - Dios mío, tengo que irme.
EN: We will proceed on the assumption that this memo is exactly what it appears to be, a general order to spruce up the entire post.
ES: Vamos a proceder como si el documento fuera exactamente lo que aparenta, una orden general para avivar todos los trabajos.
EN: She wanted to spruce up.
ES: Quería arreglarse.
EN: - I'd better spruce up too.
ES: - Mejor me arreglo también.
EN: Better spruce up...
ES: Mejor me arreglo...
EN: I gotta shave, spruce up.
ES: Afeitarme, arreglarme.
EN: To make it official, we are gonna spruce up tonight. We're gonna go out on the town, we're gonna see a show, gonna have dinner, put our glad rags on.
ES: Para que sea oficial esta noche iremos al teatro y a cenar.
EN: I was just trying to spruce up the Egyptology section of the library... but the sands of time seemed to have pretty well buried it.
ES: Estaba tratando de arreglar la sección de egiptología de la biblioteca pero las arenas del tiempo parecen haberla enterrado bastante bien.
EN: Let's spruce up these clothes, Charlie Brown.
ES: Charlie Brown.
EN: The big and little one checked in, stayed enough to spruce up, then left.
ES: Que el grandullón y el pequeñín llegaron, se refrescaron y se fueron.
EN: We have to spruce up and fertilize the "milpa".
ES: Le duele todo el cuerpo y la cabeza. No puede caminar ni cargar leña.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).