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What (who) is do up - definition
SONG BY NEIL SEDAKA
Breaking Up is Hard to Do; Breaking Up Is Hard To Do; Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (song)
do up
1.
If you do something up, you fasten it.
Mari did up the buttons...
Keep your scarf on, do your coat up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
2.
If you do up an old building, you decorate and repair it so that it is in a better condition. (BRIT)
Nicholas has bought a barn in Provence and is spending August doing it up.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron)
3.
If you say that a person or room is done up in a particular way, you mean they are dressed or decorated in that way, often a way that is rather ridiculous or extreme.
...Beatrice, usually done up like the fairy on the Christmas tree...
PHRASAL VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, co-written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Sedaka recorded this song twice, in 1962 and 1975, in two significantly different arrangements, and it is considered to be his signature song.
Get on Up and Do It Again
1981 SINGLE BY SUZY Q
Get On Up and Do It Again
"Get on Up and Do It Again" is a song by Canadian studio project Suzy Q. The song was written by Jerry Cucuzzella, Giovanni D'Orazio, Sergio Panzera and was produced by the J.
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, co-written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Sedaka recorded this song twice, in 1962 and 1975, in two significantly different arrangements, and it is considered to be his signature song. Between 1970 and 1975, it was a top-40 hit three separate times for three separate artists: Lenny Welch, The Partridge Family and Sedaka's second version.
Examples of use of do up
1. There is much they have neglected to say and do up until now.
2. "I have had to stand on tiptoes with some of them to do up their tie.
3. We‘re going to stick it out and do whatever we have to do up here to survive.
4. I was five months pregnant with my first, and could still get into, and do up, my jeans. – Ruth, Swansea, Wales.
5. The hope is they will have enough regrowth to allow them to perform the pinching motion needed to hold a toothbrush or do up a button.