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81Dress Parade — When costumes are nearly ready, the director and costume designer will view the actors in their costumes on stage under stage lighting in order to consider the effect of the color and intensity of the lighting. In his memoir More Lives Than… …
82dress shirt — 1. a man s shirt worn for formal or semiformal evening dress, usually having French cuffs and a stiff or pleated front to be fastened with studs. 2. a man s shirt, buttoning down the front and typically having long sleeves with barrel or French… …
83dress someone down — informal reprimand someone. → dress …
84dress someone down — (informal).See reprimand verb. → dress * * * informal reprimand someone …
85dres·sing-down — /ˌdrɛsıŋˈdaʊn/ noun [singular] : the act of speaking angrily to someone about something done wrong He received a furious dressing down from his boss in front of his colleagues. see also dress down at ↑dress, 1 …
86call down — verb 1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic raise the specter of unemployment he conjured wild birds in the air call down the spirits from the mountain • Syn: ↑raise, ↑conjure, ↑conjure up, ↑invoke …
87Mufti (dress) — For the article about Islamic scholars, see Mufti. for more information see civilians Mufti, or civies/civvies (slang for civilian attire ),[1] refers to ordinary clothes, especially when worn by one who normally wears, or has long worn, a… …
88brush down — verb reprimand She told the misbehaving student off • Syn: ↑tell off • Hypernyms: ↑call on the carpet, ↑take to task, ↑rebuke, ↑rag, ↑trounce, ↑ …
89come down on — Synonyms and related words: alight upon, ambush, assail, assault, attack, attend to, blitz, bushwhack, call down, come at, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, do for, dress down, drop on, fall on, fall upon, fix, gang up on, give it to, go… …
90call\ down — • call down • dress down v informal To scold. Jim was called down by his teacher for being late to class. Mother called Bob down for walking into the kitchen with muddy boots. Compare: call on the carpet, chew out, bawl out, read the riot act …
