Daily life

get dressed up

put on smart clothes

To put on smart or special clothes for an event or occasion.

B1 very common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

What are you wearing tonight?

Nothing too formal, but I might get dressed up a bit.

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We got dressed up for dinner at a really nice restaurant.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: get dress up

Say: get dressed up

Use the past participle "dressed" after "get."

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

get dressed up; get dressed up for something

Your turn: say it out loud

We got dressed up for dinner at a really nice restaurant.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

get dressed up

put on smart clothes

“We got dressed up for dinner at a really nice restaurant.”

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