tidy up

present singular third person tidies up · participle present tidying up · participle past tidied up · past tidied up · alternative tidy-up

1. To make clean, to make satisfactorily neat.

   When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.

   1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7