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31tidy — 1. adjective a) Arranged neatly and in order. Keep Britain tidy. b) Not messy; neat and controlled. The scheme made a tidy profit. Syn: neat …
32tidy up — PHRASAL VERB When you tidy up or tidy a place up, you put things back in their proper places so that everything is neat. [V n P] I really must start tidying the place up... [V P] He tried to tidy up, not wanting the maid to see the disarray …
33tidy — 1. adjective 1) a tidy room Syn: neat, orderly, well ordered, well kept, in apple pie order, uncluttered, straight 2) a very tidy person Syn: organized, neat, methodical, meti …
34tidy — [13] Tidy originally meant ‘timely, seasonable’ (it was a derivative of tide, in the now superannuated sense ‘time, season’). It early on evolved metaphorically to ‘goodlooking’, and hence ‘good’, but the modern sense ‘neat’ did not emerge until… …
35tidy up — make something tidy. → tidy …
36tidy — [13] Tidy originally meant ‘timely, seasonable’ (it was a derivative of tide, in the now superannuated sense ‘time, season’). It early on evolved metaphorically to ‘goodlooking’, and hence ‘good’, but the modern sense ‘neat’ did not emerge until… …
37tidy — adj., n., & v. adj. (tidier, tidiest) 1 neat, orderly; methodically arranged. 2 (of a person) methodically inclined. 3 colloq. considerable (it cost a tidy sum). n. (pl. ies) 1 a receptacle for holding small objects or waste scraps, esp. in a… …
38tidy up — verb put (things or places) in order (Freq. 1) Tidy up your room! • Syn: ↑tidy, ↑clean up, ↑neaten, ↑straighten, ↑straighten out, ↑square away …
39tidy-up — verb to make (something) more tidy …
40Tidy — This most interesting surname may have derived from three possible sources. Firstly, it may come from Tiddy, Tidd or Tidy which are pet forms of Tiffany , which is itself from the medieval English female given name Tiffania , from the Old French… …
