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Shape up   /ʃeɪp əp/   Listen
Shape up

verb
1.
Develop in a positive way.  Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, progress.  "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"






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"Shape up" Quotes from Famous Books



... squaring the horizontals to size. They are to be all of the same length. Next shape up the end pieces. The amount of slope for the front edges is indicated on the drawing. After all these pieces have been squared up and the mill-marks removed, the dadoes or grooves and gains may ...
— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 3 • H. H. Windsor

... trace an irregularly-shaped long oval, quite two inches smaller all the way round than the tracing of the skin itself. Cut this out in stiff paper, and from it shape up one or two boards of 1 in. to 1.5 in. deal, jointed together on edge; to this "body-board" bolt by staples the four strong rods representing the fore and hind limb bones. Let each have a right-angled crook where ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... jumble—eyes, scurrying movement, and bulk. Then things started to shape up. About ten feet back from the entrance was a huge, flattish, naked, scabrous bulk, pimpled with finger-sized teats. Clustered around and behind this were a tangle of slinging units, carrier units, observation units. Some had their mouths ...
— Cat and Mouse • Ralph Williams

... As things shape up now it looks as though we were the only life-sized country that could keep neutral for long, and as a consequence all the representatives of the countries in conflict are keeping us pretty well posted ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson

... compromise. I hated it like hell, but it was up to me to hunt Luck up and see what he would do. His hat gave me an excuse to call. So I started out and came round the corner of San Mateo Street just in time to see the robber pull out. Honest, the fellow did shape up a little like Luck. Right then I got the darned fool notion of mixing him up in it. I threw his hat down and shot a hole in it, then unlocked the door of the express office carrying the hat in my hand. That's all there ...
— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine



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