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tuck up

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? tuck up
vt sep
skirt, hair → hochnehmen; sleeve → hochkrempeln; legs → unterschlagen
(Brit) to tuck somebody up (in bed) → jdn zudecken


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Cornelius had made use of the intervening moments to take off the man's coat, and to tuck up his shirt sleeve.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Tuck up your gown and go through them without touching anything, or you will die instantly.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
Him also it loved because on occasions of stress he was used to tuck up his cassock and charge with the rest into the merriest of the fray, where he always found, good man, that the saints sent him a revolver when there was a fallen private to be protected, or - but this came as an afterthought his own gray head to be guarded.
The Mutiny of the Mavericks by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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