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the coals, Brit tear (someone) off a strip, US and Canadian chew
out, US rake (someone) over the coals, tee off on (someone):
The colonel dressed us down and cancelled all leave. 5 dress
up. a put on dinner or formal clothes, put on one's (Sunday)
best (clothes), Colloq put on one's best bib and tucker or one's
glad rags: On the cruise, we dressed up in our dinner-jackets
every night. b (put on a) costume, disguise, masquerade,
camouflage, put on fancy dress: The children dressed up as
goblins for Hallowe'en.
--n. 6 frock, gown, outfit, costume, Colloq get-up: Why not
wear your new dress to the dance tonight?
dressmaker
n. seamstress, tailor, couturier or couturiŠre, modiste: She's
at the dressmaker's having a ball gown fitted.
dressy adj. 1 formal, dressed-up, elegant, fancy, chic: A black suit
is too dressy to wear tonight - it's not a dressy party. 2
elegant, smart, stylish, Colloq classy, ritzy, Brit swish:
That's a very dressy outfit, I must say!
drift v. 1 coast, float, waft: A log drifted by on the tide. 2
wander, roam, meander, stray, rove, ramble, Colloq mosey: He
seems just to drift through life, without a purpose.
--n. 3 trend, tendency, direction, course, current, bias,
inclination, flow, sweep, bent: The drift of the conversation
seemed to be towards politics. 4 intention, meaning, purport,
purpose, aim, object, tenor, tone, spirit, colour, essence,
gist, significance, import: Offended by the drift of her
remarks, I excused myself. 5 accumulation, pile, heap, mass,
bank, mound, dune: After the snowstorm, a huge drift blocked
the door.
drifter n. vagrant, tramp, vagabond, beachcomber, rambler, wanderer,
Colloq knight of the road, US bum, hobo: A drifter, he had no
place to call home.
drill v. 1 bore, penetrate, pierce, cut a hole: The thieves drilled
into the safe. 2 rehearse, train, practise, exercise, teach,
instruct, school, tutor, coach, indoctrinate; discipline: We
were thoroughly drilled in the Latin conjugations and