make up the bed

make up the bed
make (up) the bed to smooth and arrange the covers on a bed so it is ready for someone to sleep in.

It took me the whole morning to make the beds and do the wash.


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  • make the bed — make (up) the bed to smooth and arrange the covers on a bed so it is ready for someone to sleep in. It took me the whole morning to make the beds and do the wash …   New idioms dictionary

  • make the bed — arrange the sheets and blankets on a bed    Please make the bed before you eat breakfast …   English idioms

  • make the bed — arrange the bed, arrange the sheets …   English contemporary dictionary

  • make one’s bed — tv. to be the cause of one’s own misery. □ Well, I guess I made my own bed. Now I have to lie in it. □ “We all make our own beds,” said the minister …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • make one's bed and lie in it — To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results. * /Billy smoked one of his father s cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it./ Compare: FACE THE MUSIC(2) …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • make one's bed and lie in it — To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results. * /Billy smoked one of his father s cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it./ Compare: FACE THE MUSIC(2) …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • make the bed — verb To arrange the sheets of a bed in a neat way …   Wiktionary

  • make\ one's\ bed\ and\ lie\ in\ it — To be responsible for what you have done and so to have to accept the bad results. Billy smoked one of his father s cigars and now he is sick. He made his bed, now let him lie in it. Compare: face the music(2) …   Словарь американских идиом

  • make one's bed and lie in it — be responsible for what one has done and then have to accept the bad results You quit your job and now you have no money. You made your bed. Now you must lie in it …   Idioms and examples

  • make the (bed) springs creak —    to copulate    The usual bed2 imagery. The springs may also squeak under the same provocation:     We ve been married a long time and made the springs creak times without number. (Fraser, 1971)     It would improve everyone present if the… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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