Destination C1 C2 Topic 22

Examine someone or smth in order to be certain that everything is correct, true or satisfactory

• Paper over

• Check out

• Scrape thtough

• Brush up

Make a surface look better with small improvements

• Touch up

• Pick up

• Make over

• Mess up

Repair smth often quickly and not very well, become friends with smb again after a disagreement

• Stand out

• Touch up

• Patch up

• Liven up

Gradually become thinnerand weaker over a period of time, usually because of an illness

• Write off

• Brush up

• Mess up

• Waste away

Succeed in doing smth, but not in a very impressive way

• Scrape through

• Patch up

• Liven up

• Paper over

Make smth more interesting and exciting or become more interesting or exciting

• Brighten up

• Liven up

• Touch up

• Write off

Improve

• Patch up

• Stand out

• Pick up

• Make over

If an organisation or area is run down, its size, importance and activity is reduced

• Mess up

• Check out

• Run down

• Waste away

Practice and improve your knowledge and skills or knowledge of smth

• Brush up

• Make over

• Paper over

• Liven up

Change or improve the appearance of smb or smth

• Make over

• Paper over

• Write off

• Smarten up