tune up | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)To makeadjustments(to anengineor bicycledrivetrain) in order to improve itsperformance.; (intransitive)To makepreparationsfor vigorousexercise; towarm up.; (intransitive)To begin to sing or play music.; (intransitive,music)Totuneone's instrument in preparation for performance.; (chieflyUS,transitive,idiomatic)Tobeat up(someone).2007, Michael Berish,Reflections from the Pit‎[1],→ISBN:“We finally stopped roustin' him and decided totune him upinstead, every chance we got.”“Tune him up?”“Yeah, that's an expression for beatin' the living dog shit outta somebody.”2015, Joe Peters, Bill Fleming,Code Black,→ISBN,page264:“I mean, I had totune her upa bit. She bitched a lot and never did any work. Sometimes, you know, you just gotta get their attention, whack 'em a little."2017,Jeff Gulvin,The Contract: A John Q Thriller‎[2],→ISBN:[T]hey couldn'ttune him upbecause the murder had to look like he died in his sleep.

Examples:

EN: Let them tune up my machine.
ES: Que pongan a punto mi avión.
EN: Are you all ready to tune up? Yes!
ES: - ¿Están listos para afinar?
EN: I'll pop down and tune up the boiler again.
ES: Yo voy afinando la caldera.
EN: They don't take no time to tune up and start singing.
ES: No tardan mucho en volver a cantar.
EN: First I'll tune up.
ES: Primero lo afinaré.
EN: "To tune up," you'd say.
ES: "Para conectar", decía usted.
EN: All you sound trippers and hippies, you gather round the boob tube and tune up high, you dig?
ES: Viajeros sónicos y hippies acérquense a la tele y prepárense para volar.
EN: You wanna... tune up my old iron here?
ES: ¿Puedes poner a punto mi viejo trasto?
EN: I just got a tune up.
ES: Recién lo afiné.
EN: Now we ARE here, why don't you tune up 1980, and we can...well, leave!
ES: Ahora que estamos aquí, ¿por qué no volvemos a 1980 y... podemos, vaya, irnos?
EN: Now, everybody, now tune up your voices.
ES: - Bien. - Afinen sus voces.
EN: I could catalogue your art collection write biographies of jazz immortals, tune up the motorcycles.
ES: Oh, bueno, yo podría catalogar su colección de arte. Escribir pequeñas biografías de los inmortales del jazz.
EN: Give the orchestra five minutes to tune up.
ES: Dale a la orquesta cinco minutos para afinar.
EN: You do understand' 'there's only about a 1000 dollars left' 'after the tune up and polishing the car.'
ES: ¿entiendes que sólo quedan $ 1.000 ....después de la puesta a punto y el pulido del coche?
EN: Let's tune up.
ES: ¿Helen?

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