Daily life
dress something up or down
make more formal or casual
To dress something up or down means to make it look more formal or more casual.
Hear it in real life
Is that jacket only for work?
No, you can dress it up or down quite easily.
This black dress is easy to dress up or down with the right shoes.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: dress up or dress down something
Say: dress something up or down
With a pronoun, put it before the particles: “dress it up or down,” not “dress up or down it.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
dress something up or down; dress up or down an outfit
Your turn: say it out loud
This black dress is easy to dress up or down with the right shoes.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
dress something up or down
make more formal or casual
“This black dress is easy to dress up or down with the right shoes.”
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