Definition of tidy in English:

tidy

adjectivetidier, tidiest ˈtʌɪdiˈtaɪdi

1Arranged neatly and in order.
整洁的，整齐的
his scrupulously tidy apartment
他那十分整洁的公寓。
figurative the lives they lead don't fit into tidy patterns
〈喻〉他们过的日子杂乱不堪。
Example sentencesExamples
- The judges were very impressed with the area and how tidy and neat it is.
- By the day of the party, Rowena and Sammy were entirely unpacked, the apartment was tidy, and the food preparations were on schedule.
- They can barely wait to get rid of the place so they can return to a tidy apartment in Paris with a bistro next door.
- The village was neat, with tidy little houses, arranged along three roads leading out from this castle.
- When I sit down on empty days like this and wonder what to do with myself I think mostly of tidy roses and neatly mown lawns.
- Although I'm not hugely obsessive about it, it has to at least appear to be tidy and clean.
- The hippie girls, Kelly and Mollie, finally moved off the island and out of the trailer, and now have a tidy apartment up in the 80s.
- It would only take a couple of minutes to keep outside business premises tidy.
- A careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden.
- Salford has efficient binmen and clean, tidy town centres, roads and parks, says an independent watchdog.
- Lace curtains neatly surround the latticed windows while pretty flowers border the tidy garden which has obviously been lovingly kept.
- This will be an integral part of the tidy towns five year plan.
- They were packed with tidy rows of disks, neatly labeled and organized alphabetically.
- If you give an example of keeping things well organised and tidy, the chances are your adolescent will eventually do the same.
- His wife, Olfah, is arranging furniture that has just arrived at their tidy two-bedroom flat.
- I was very particular about these things - I had to make everything perfectly tidy and orderly, or I would go crazy.
- She prided her self in loving everything neat, tidy and organised.
- Robert Cecil was Secretary of State as well as Leader of the House of Commons, and made earnest efforts to regulate the private lives of citizens into a neat and tidy pattern.
- The mess the workmen had created in her normally tidy and well-organised house had driven her out and down to the local shops in an attempt to get away from them.
- Wellingborough is tidy, neat and comfortable rather than prosperous.
Synonyms
neat, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in (good) order, well kept, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, organized, well organized, well arranged, sorted out, straight, straightened out, trim, spruce
archaic tricksy
1. 1.1 Inclined to keep things or one's appearance neat and in order.
  （人）爱整洁的，爱整齐的
  she was a tidy little girl
  她是个爱整洁的小女孩。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She'd never been a very tidy person; thus the slightly mess apartment.
  Yet this girl, with a meticulously tidy mother and accountant father, was a walking bomb site who couldn't add up.
  After the third knock a charming and tidy gentleman appeared at the front door.
  It looks like the home of a particularly tidy student.
  Irving, thought by his family at home in Vermont to be obsessively tidy, is a control freak.
  And then he decided the reason we aren't living together is because you're tidy and I'm not.
  If you wore slacks you were almost certainly a member of the golf club, you were neat and tidy and smart, you were destined for a middling job, an early marriage and early middle age.
  She's fabulously sweet to us, and thinks we're very tidy and considerate.
  I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, because anybody who reads this is probably a considerate and reasonably tidy person.
  Lydie, a more calm and tidy girl by nature, had graduated at the top of her class back in Mount Lennon.
  He is a small, tidy man with a neat beard and an orange Yves Saint Laurent top.
  Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts.
  Synonyms
  smart, spruce, dapper, trim, neat, well groomed, well turned out
  organized, well organized, methodical, systematic, efficient, meticulous
  fastidious
  informal natty
  dated as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox
  archaic trig
2. 1.2 Neat and controlled.
  有条理的；工整的
  he wrote down her replies in a small, tidy hand
  他以工整的小字记下了她的回答。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has a tidy action and excellent control over his line and length.
  Wilson runs a neat and tidy show, with just the occasional seasoning of edge to it.
  He did not threaten aerially but was prepared to tackle and his distribution was generally tidy.
  York bowled a tidy and straight line but NYCA never kept up with the required run rate despite Conway batting right through for an unbeaten 68.
  Of course, this process is not as neat and tidy as I have made it appear.
  My neat, tidy organised life is structured to avoid self-inflicted nasty surprises.
  In a rather neat and tidy package, the movie playfully portrays the highs and lows of a complicated dating process.
  The words inside were written in black ink, in very neat and tidy handwriting.
  You'll see neat and tidy chapters, broken into subsets on theory, mechanics, and practice.
  Bassett keeps these feelings just below the surface, letting the viewer watch as she struggles to maintain her tidy life in control.
  All the fans want, really, is a tidy procedure that neatly resolves the loose ends.
  The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes.
  Patterson and New Zealand pro Matt Horne seized control in the face of a tidy but far from fierce attack.
  I never thought of him being meticulous, but you're probably right; his handwriting was very neat and very tidy.
  I'm just looking for a neat and tidy finish to the season before preparing for the new one.
  This time, he was more confident and more controlled, but still managed some very spectacular and tidy dancing.
  The open-ended nature of the story is in keeping with the character who has been presented to us but is a little on the frustrating side for anyone seeking tidy endings.
  She turned the paper so that the side with Christy's tidy writing faced outward.
2informal attributive (of an amount, especially of money) considerable.
〈非正式〉（数量）相当大的；（尤指钱）相当多的
the book will bring in a tidy sum
这本书将带来一笔可观的收入。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Glasgow firm, a world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control units, also made a tidy fortune from millennium parties around the world.
- He put a tidy amount on at 40-1 and picked up a four-figure sum.
- Irvine has made a tidy living as a controversial tabloid editor, columnist and now owner of his Glasgow-based PR company Media House.
- You could join the thieves guild and make quite a tidy bit of money.
- They generally look to sell off the businesses between three and five years for a tidy profit.
- The night is due to be a good one and you never know you might win a tidy sum of money just before Christmas.
- At a fiver a head it would have made a tidy sum for some deserving cause.
- For this little upset, she was awarded the tidy sum of £3,500.
- The seller will be content to depart with a tidy sum as a reward for years spent developing the enterprise.
- This tidy sum may be dinner money for many of you high-flyers, but for the rest of us, it would go down a treat.
- He pocketed quite a tidy sum and left a richer man.
- It amounts to the tidy sum of several thousand dollars.
- Well done to both girls who finished the run in a good time and managed to raise a tidy sum of money in sponsorship for Newry and Mourne Hospice.
- The Poker Run of a few weeks ago benefited St. Vincent's Hospital in Mountmellick and raised a very tidy sum with the money still coming in.
- All who attended, not just the winners who walked away with a nice tidy sum of money, had a great night.
- At $10 a month per user, that amounts to a tidy sum.
- Plus, the money I don't spend on meat will amount to a tidy sum as the years pass.
- However, I plan to retire long before then with a tidy income from company and private pensions, ISAs, property and so on.
- Helen's father, Francis, sold the winning ticket and he received a tidy sum of €440.
- We deferred almost all our household spending for six months and thus earned a tidy amount of extra interest.
Synonyms
large, sizeable, considerable, substantial, significant, appreciable, handsome, generous, ample, respectable, largish, biggish, fair, decent, decent-sized, healthy
Scottish &amp Northern English bonny
informal not to be sneezed at, serious
archaic goodly
1. 2.1 Used as a general term of approval.
  相当好的，令人满意的
  City have the backbone of a tidy side
  市队有很好的骨干队员。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The former Biggar player's tidy performance encapsulated the discipline and focus of a side which had a well-constructed gameplan and which stuck to it as well as they have all year.

nounPlural tidies ˈtʌɪdiˈtaɪdi

1also tidy-upBritish in singular An act or spell of tidying something.
整理，收拾
she's coming to give his house its Saturday morning tidy
Example sentencesExamples
- If you just witter vaguely about a dust-round and tidy-up, you've only yourself to blame if you come home to a grimy cooker.
- Do a quick tidy-up if you want and definitely make sure there are no unfinished jobs that could catch your eye.
- It needs some serious cleaning and a good tidy-up, plus a lot of airing.
- Inside, the car gets a much-needed trim tidy-up, with a redesigned instrument cluster and space for satellite navigation and climate control.
- The graveyard looks well after last Sunday's tidy-up - the final one for this year.
- Following the successful cleaning campaign in October last year, a second tidy-up is being organised as part of Earthday on April 22.
- It is not that there are any great problems with the house, it just needs a bit of a vac round and a tidy.
- Several tons of rubbish were cleaned from houses during the tidy-up.
- Rain stopped play on the garage painting project late in the afternoon, so Graham shifted his attention to the inside, doing a major tidy-up on the garage and on his workshop at the back end.
- Yesterday I did a major tidy of the back room, and I mentioned that I intended doing the same for the front room.
- One of her first appeals will be to have the traditional tidy-up done daily by shopkeepers in front of their own premises.
- The insides get a tidy-up too, with better seats and improved trim.
- I've collected a few, taken them home and they usually end up in a drawer or get thrown away during the next tidy-up.
- The money was raised last November, when all the members of the club took part in a sponsored graveyard tidy at St Michael's and All Angel's Church, Haworth.
- The point is that the heart of our town needs an injection of pride and a total tidy-up.
- She said people living nearby did their best but they were disappointed that their opportunity for a tidy-up had been spoiled.
- They were taking part in the monthly tidy-up organised by the local Community Association.
- Many parents of teenagers know all about bedrooms needing a good tidy-up, but how many would require a full-scale archaeological dig?
- The public in return have asked us to pass on their thanks to the Development Group for co-ordinating and promoting the tidy-up.
- They're in need of an autumn tidy, that's for sure, but it's a job that'll keep Graham busy for no more than half a day, possibly as much as a full day.
2usually with modifier A receptacle for holding small objects or waste scraps.
装零星杂物的容器
a cable tidy
Example sentencesExamples
- Cables are the bane of any globetrotting geek's life, and while there seems to be no perfect solution to the misery of self-knotting spaghetti, I am taken with the ease and simplicity of the magnetic cable tidies.
- Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
- As we look down the inside length of the unit, on the left hand side at the rear is a nice cable tidy, to keep the power leads out of your way.
- The pen tidy in question wasn't a container, it was a lump of something jellified with holes in so that you had to choose which pen fitted which hole and then rearrange them like flowers or pineapple chunks on sticks in a grapefruit.
- Disposing of the tub in the kitchen tidy, she searched the lounge room for her mobile phone and wallet.
3US A detachable ornamental cover for a chair back.
〈主美〉（椅子靠背的）罩单，套子

verbtidies, tidied, tidying ˈtʌɪdiˈtaɪdi

[with object]

1Bring order to; arrange neatly.
使整洁（或整齐）；收拾
the boys have finally tidied their bedroom
figurative the Bill is intended to tidy up the law on this matter
〈喻〉议案旨在这个事情上完善法律。
no object I'll just go and tidy up
我就去收拾。
Example sentencesExamples
- Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess.
- If the weather stays reasonable I'll be tidying the garden but that won't take too much effort.
- Then we could see all the chefs tidying stuff away and we realised that it wasn't going to be.
- The good thing about spending all weekend tidying my bedroom is that I have a tidy bedroom.
- Tributes were also made to everyone who had cleaned and tidied the graves and to those who cut the grass.
- You wouldn't believe what I found under the rug when I was tidying this place up.
- Used needles, rubbish and even a caravan had been left on the site, creating a danger to those tidying it up.
- At a knock on her door, she tidied the desk quickly and sat down with a book.
- Surely it's impossible to simply pick up a pile of papers and staple them without tidying them?
- I decided to make a start on tidying things in readiness for the move to a new family house.
- He ordered that the place be tidied up to disguise evidence of a party.
- When she arrived, Sam brought her to his workstation where they chatted while he tidied his desk.
- It is the council which allowed rubble to be tipped there, it is the council which has never cleaned or tidied it.
- The wells in the old graveyard are being tidied up and cleaned for the day.
- He'd apparently spent all day at home tidying his property and had even had flower-arrangers in to do work.
- I welcome their efforts in picking things up off the floor and tidying their rooms.
- This doesn't stop me waking up early and running round tidying the flat, polishing and cleaning.
- Suddenly there is nothing to worry about other than tidying my room and sending emails.
- In theory I was supposed to be paying bills and tidying paperwork too, but that never happened.
- Thinking they were arguing, she continued vacuum cleaning and tidying the rest of the house.
Synonyms
put in order, clear up, sort out, put to rights, straighten (out), make shipshape, clean, clean up, spruce up
informal dejunk
groom oneself, spruce oneself up, freshen oneself up, preen oneself, primp oneself, prink oneself, pretty oneself, beautify oneself
informal titivate oneself, doll oneself up
British informal tart oneself up
archaic plume oneself, trig oneself
1. 1.1tidy something away Put something away for the sake of neatness.
  （为使整洁而）移开，拿掉
  I was tidying away papers in my office
  我正整理办公室的文件。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It wasn't even in the tub marked ‘leather’, which is the only place that someone might tidy it away to by mistake.
  We finished up, tidied things away, then hit the showers.
  His dishes had been tidied away and stacked in the dishwasher; hers remained on the kitchen bench for him to see to.
  Mention has already been made of using Velcro loops to tidy the wiring away.
  To be fair, it was as well they rang, as it forced me into the shower and down to breakfast in time to catch the last of the buffet before it was tidied away for the day.
  Well no-one rang, so we tidied some papers away and had a cup of tea.
  After tidying the stuff away I popped up to see P and she seemed really well.
  It could be that you want your child to tidy the toys away each day, or change out of his school uniform when he gets home - it's up to you.
  It looked like she had been standing there thinking for quite a while, as everything on her desk was tidied away, no work in progress left out, and her chair was neatly pushed in.
  The whirlwind of toddlers has been and gone, (most of) the mess is tidied away, Akra Jr is in bed if not quite asleep yet.
  Synonyms
  remove, take away, carry away, move, shift, tidy away, tidy up

Derivatives

tidily

adverb ˈtʌɪdɪli

Patients unfortunate enough to expire did so tidily tucked up in bed.
Example sentencesExamples
- He is described as white, in his late 30s to early 40s, with short, dark neat hair and tidily dressed.
- He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones.
- So, like the pressing need in the US for some certainty in a lot of things, they tried to wrap it as tidily as possible.
- Catherine's pork medallions were tidily presented and accompanied with a filling parsley mash and creamy sauce.

Origin

Middle English: from the noun tide + -y¹. The original meaning was 'timely, opportune'; it later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including 'attractive', 'healthy', and 'skilful'; the sense 'orderly, neat' dates from the early 18th century.

Rhymes

bona fide, Heidi, mala fide, vide

Definition of tidy in US English:

tidy

adjectiveˈtīdēˈtaɪdi

1Arranged neatly and in order.
整洁的，整齐的
his scrupulously tidy apartment
他那十分整洁的公寓。
figurative the lives they lead don't fit into tidy patterns
〈喻〉他们过的日子杂乱不堪。
Example sentencesExamples
- Robert Cecil was Secretary of State as well as Leader of the House of Commons, and made earnest efforts to regulate the private lives of citizens into a neat and tidy pattern.
- His wife, Olfah, is arranging furniture that has just arrived at their tidy two-bedroom flat.
- Lace curtains neatly surround the latticed windows while pretty flowers border the tidy garden which has obviously been lovingly kept.
- It would only take a couple of minutes to keep outside business premises tidy.
- Salford has efficient binmen and clean, tidy town centres, roads and parks, says an independent watchdog.
- The judges were very impressed with the area and how tidy and neat it is.
- When I sit down on empty days like this and wonder what to do with myself I think mostly of tidy roses and neatly mown lawns.
- If you give an example of keeping things well organised and tidy, the chances are your adolescent will eventually do the same.
- This will be an integral part of the tidy towns five year plan.
- The hippie girls, Kelly and Mollie, finally moved off the island and out of the trailer, and now have a tidy apartment up in the 80s.
- Although I'm not hugely obsessive about it, it has to at least appear to be tidy and clean.
- A careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden.
- They can barely wait to get rid of the place so they can return to a tidy apartment in Paris with a bistro next door.
- The mess the workmen had created in her normally tidy and well-organised house had driven her out and down to the local shops in an attempt to get away from them.
- Wellingborough is tidy, neat and comfortable rather than prosperous.
- I was very particular about these things - I had to make everything perfectly tidy and orderly, or I would go crazy.
- The village was neat, with tidy little houses, arranged along three roads leading out from this castle.
- She prided her self in loving everything neat, tidy and organised.
- By the day of the party, Rowena and Sammy were entirely unpacked, the apartment was tidy, and the food preparations were on schedule.
- They were packed with tidy rows of disks, neatly labeled and organized alphabetically.
Synonyms
neat, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in order, in good order, well kept, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, organized, well organized, well arranged, sorted out, straight, straightened out, trim, spruce
1. 1.1 (of a person) inclined to keep things or one's appearance neat and in order.
  （人）爱整洁的，爱整齐的
  she was a tidy little girl
  她是个爱整洁的小女孩。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts.
  Irving, thought by his family at home in Vermont to be obsessively tidy, is a control freak.
  And then he decided the reason we aren't living together is because you're tidy and I'm not.
  It looks like the home of a particularly tidy student.
  Lydie, a more calm and tidy girl by nature, had graduated at the top of her class back in Mount Lennon.
  He is a small, tidy man with a neat beard and an orange Yves Saint Laurent top.
  She's fabulously sweet to us, and thinks we're very tidy and considerate.
  After the third knock a charming and tidy gentleman appeared at the front door.
  I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, because anybody who reads this is probably a considerate and reasonably tidy person.
  Yet this girl, with a meticulously tidy mother and accountant father, was a walking bomb site who couldn't add up.
  If you wore slacks you were almost certainly a member of the golf club, you were neat and tidy and smart, you were destined for a middling job, an early marriage and early middle age.
  She'd never been a very tidy person; thus the slightly mess apartment.
  Synonyms
  smart, spruce, dapper, trim, neat, well groomed, well turned out
2. 1.2 Not messy; neat and controlled.
  有条理的；工整的
  he wrote down her replies in a small, tidy hand
  他以工整的小字记下了她的回答。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He did not threaten aerially but was prepared to tackle and his distribution was generally tidy.
  All the fans want, really, is a tidy procedure that neatly resolves the loose ends.
  She turned the paper so that the side with Christy's tidy writing faced outward.
  The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes.
  This time, he was more confident and more controlled, but still managed some very spectacular and tidy dancing.
  You'll see neat and tidy chapters, broken into subsets on theory, mechanics, and practice.
  York bowled a tidy and straight line but NYCA never kept up with the required run rate despite Conway batting right through for an unbeaten 68.
  The words inside were written in black ink, in very neat and tidy handwriting.
  Wilson runs a neat and tidy show, with just the occasional seasoning of edge to it.
  Of course, this process is not as neat and tidy as I have made it appear.
  In a rather neat and tidy package, the movie playfully portrays the highs and lows of a complicated dating process.
  I'm just looking for a neat and tidy finish to the season before preparing for the new one.
  I never thought of him being meticulous, but you're probably right; his handwriting was very neat and very tidy.
  My neat, tidy organised life is structured to avoid self-inflicted nasty surprises.
  Patterson and New Zealand pro Matt Horne seized control in the face of a tidy but far from fierce attack.
  He has a tidy action and excellent control over his line and length.
  Bassett keeps these feelings just below the surface, letting the viewer watch as she struggles to maintain her tidy life in control.
  The open-ended nature of the story is in keeping with the character who has been presented to us but is a little on the frustrating side for anyone seeking tidy endings.
2informal attributive (of an amount, especially of money) considerable.
〈非正式〉（数量）相当大的；（尤指钱）相当多的
the book will bring in a tidy sum
这本书将带来一笔可观的收入。
Example sentencesExamples
- At a fiver a head it would have made a tidy sum for some deserving cause.
- He pocketed quite a tidy sum and left a richer man.
- They generally look to sell off the businesses between three and five years for a tidy profit.
- The Glasgow firm, a world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control units, also made a tidy fortune from millennium parties around the world.
- For this little upset, she was awarded the tidy sum of £3,500.
- We deferred almost all our household spending for six months and thus earned a tidy amount of extra interest.
- The night is due to be a good one and you never know you might win a tidy sum of money just before Christmas.
- It amounts to the tidy sum of several thousand dollars.
- He put a tidy amount on at 40-1 and picked up a four-figure sum.
- This tidy sum may be dinner money for many of you high-flyers, but for the rest of us, it would go down a treat.
- The seller will be content to depart with a tidy sum as a reward for years spent developing the enterprise.
- However, I plan to retire long before then with a tidy income from company and private pensions, ISAs, property and so on.
- Irvine has made a tidy living as a controversial tabloid editor, columnist and now owner of his Glasgow-based PR company Media House.
- All who attended, not just the winners who walked away with a nice tidy sum of money, had a great night.
- Well done to both girls who finished the run in a good time and managed to raise a tidy sum of money in sponsorship for Newry and Mourne Hospice.
- The Poker Run of a few weeks ago benefited St. Vincent's Hospital in Mountmellick and raised a very tidy sum with the money still coming in.
- At $10 a month per user, that amounts to a tidy sum.
- Plus, the money I don't spend on meat will amount to a tidy sum as the years pass.
- Helen's father, Francis, sold the winning ticket and he received a tidy sum of €440.
- You could join the thieves guild and make quite a tidy bit of money.
Synonyms
large, sizeable, considerable, substantial, significant, appreciable, handsome, generous, ample, respectable, largish, biggish, fair, decent, decent-sized, healthy

nounˈtīdēˈtaɪdi

1usually with modifier A receptacle for holding small objects or waste scraps.
装零星杂物的容器
a cable tidy
Example sentencesExamples
- Disposing of the tub in the kitchen tidy, she searched the lounge room for her mobile phone and wallet.
- Cables are the bane of any globetrotting geek's life, and while there seems to be no perfect solution to the misery of self-knotting spaghetti, I am taken with the ease and simplicity of the magnetic cable tidies.
- Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
- The pen tidy in question wasn't a container, it was a lump of something jellified with holes in so that you had to choose which pen fitted which hole and then rearrange them like flowers or pineapple chunks on sticks in a grapefruit.
- As we look down the inside length of the unit, on the left hand side at the rear is a nice cable tidy, to keep the power leads out of your way.
2US
another term for antimacassar

verbˈtīdēˈtaɪdi

[with object]

Bring order to; arrange neatly.
使整洁（或整齐）；收拾
the boys have finally tidied their bedroom
figurative the Bill is intended to tidy up the law on this matter
〈喻〉议案旨在这个事情上完善法律。
no object I'll just go and tidy up
我就去收拾。
Example sentencesExamples
- Tributes were also made to everyone who had cleaned and tidied the graves and to those who cut the grass.
- You wouldn't believe what I found under the rug when I was tidying this place up.
- Surely it's impossible to simply pick up a pile of papers and staple them without tidying them?
- He ordered that the place be tidied up to disguise evidence of a party.
- Then we could see all the chefs tidying stuff away and we realised that it wasn't going to be.
- Thinking they were arguing, she continued vacuum cleaning and tidying the rest of the house.
- I welcome their efforts in picking things up off the floor and tidying their rooms.
- If the weather stays reasonable I'll be tidying the garden but that won't take too much effort.
- At a knock on her door, she tidied the desk quickly and sat down with a book.
- He'd apparently spent all day at home tidying his property and had even had flower-arrangers in to do work.
- In theory I was supposed to be paying bills and tidying paperwork too, but that never happened.
- It is the council which allowed rubble to be tipped there, it is the council which has never cleaned or tidied it.
- Used needles, rubbish and even a caravan had been left on the site, creating a danger to those tidying it up.
- Suddenly there is nothing to worry about other than tidying my room and sending emails.
- This doesn't stop me waking up early and running round tidying the flat, polishing and cleaning.
- The good thing about spending all weekend tidying my bedroom is that I have a tidy bedroom.
- When she arrived, Sam brought her to his workstation where they chatted while he tidied his desk.
- The wells in the old graveyard are being tidied up and cleaned for the day.
- I decided to make a start on tidying things in readiness for the move to a new family house.
- Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess.
Synonyms
put in order, clear up, sort out, put to rights, straighten, straighten out, make shipshape, clean, clean up, spruce up
groom oneself, spruce oneself up, freshen oneself up, preen oneself, primp oneself, prink oneself, pretty oneself, beautify oneself

Origin

Middle English: from the noun tide + -y. The original meaning was ‘timely, opportune’; it later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including ‘attractive’, ‘healthy’, and ‘skillful’; the sense ‘orderly, neat’ dates from the early 18th century.

单词	tidy
释义	Definition of tidy in English: tidy adjectivetidier, tidiest ˈtʌɪdiˈtaɪdi 1Arranged neatly and in order. 整洁的，整齐的 his scrupulously tidy apartment 他那十分整洁的公寓。 figurative the lives they lead don't fit into tidy patterns 〈喻〉他们过的日子杂乱不堪。 Example sentencesExamples The judges were very impressed with the area and how tidy and neat it is. By the day of the party, Rowena and Sammy were entirely unpacked, the apartment was tidy, and the food preparations were on schedule. They can barely wait to get rid of the place so they can return to a tidy apartment in Paris with a bistro next door. The village was neat, with tidy little houses, arranged along three roads leading out from this castle. When I sit down on empty days like this and wonder what to do with myself I think mostly of tidy roses and neatly mown lawns. Although I'm not hugely obsessive about it, it has to at least appear to be tidy and clean. The hippie girls, Kelly and Mollie, finally moved off the island and out of the trailer, and now have a tidy apartment up in the 80s. It would only take a couple of minutes to keep outside business premises tidy. A careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden. Salford has efficient binmen and clean, tidy town centres, roads and parks, says an independent watchdog. Lace curtains neatly surround the latticed windows while pretty flowers border the tidy garden which has obviously been lovingly kept. This will be an integral part of the tidy towns five year plan. They were packed with tidy rows of disks, neatly labeled and organized alphabetically. If you give an example of keeping things well organised and tidy, the chances are your adolescent will eventually do the same. His wife, Olfah, is arranging furniture that has just arrived at their tidy two-bedroom flat. I was very particular about these things - I had to make everything perfectly tidy and orderly, or I would go crazy. She prided her self in loving everything neat, tidy and organised. Robert Cecil was Secretary of State as well as Leader of the House of Commons, and made earnest efforts to regulate the private lives of citizens into a neat and tidy pattern. The mess the workmen had created in her normally tidy and well-organised house had driven her out and down to the local shops in an attempt to get away from them. Wellingborough is tidy, neat and comfortable rather than prosperous. Synonyms neat, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in (good) order, well kept, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, organized, well organized, well arranged, sorted out, straight, straightened out, trim, spruce archaic tricksy 1.1 Inclined to keep things or one's appearance neat and in order. （人）爱整洁的，爱整齐的 she was a tidy little girl 她是个爱整洁的小女孩。 Example sentencesExamples She'd never been a very tidy person; thus the slightly mess apartment. Yet this girl, with a meticulously tidy mother and accountant father, was a walking bomb site who couldn't add up. After the third knock a charming and tidy gentleman appeared at the front door. It looks like the home of a particularly tidy student. Irving, thought by his family at home in Vermont to be obsessively tidy, is a control freak. And then he decided the reason we aren't living together is because you're tidy and I'm not. If you wore slacks you were almost certainly a member of the golf club, you were neat and tidy and smart, you were destined for a middling job, an early marriage and early middle age. She's fabulously sweet to us, and thinks we're very tidy and considerate. I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, because anybody who reads this is probably a considerate and reasonably tidy person. Lydie, a more calm and tidy girl by nature, had graduated at the top of her class back in Mount Lennon. He is a small, tidy man with a neat beard and an orange Yves Saint Laurent top. Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts. Synonyms smart, spruce, dapper, trim, neat, well groomed, well turned out organized, well organized, methodical, systematic, efficient, meticulous fastidious informal natty dated as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox archaic trig 1.2 Neat and controlled. 有条理的；工整的 he wrote down her replies in a small, tidy hand 他以工整的小字记下了她的回答。 Example sentencesExamples He has a tidy action and excellent control over his line and length. Wilson runs a neat and tidy show, with just the occasional seasoning of edge to it. He did not threaten aerially but was prepared to tackle and his distribution was generally tidy. York bowled a tidy and straight line but NYCA never kept up with the required run rate despite Conway batting right through for an unbeaten 68. Of course, this process is not as neat and tidy as I have made it appear. My neat, tidy organised life is structured to avoid self-inflicted nasty surprises. In a rather neat and tidy package, the movie playfully portrays the highs and lows of a complicated dating process. The words inside were written in black ink, in very neat and tidy handwriting. You'll see neat and tidy chapters, broken into subsets on theory, mechanics, and practice. Bassett keeps these feelings just below the surface, letting the viewer watch as she struggles to maintain her tidy life in control. All the fans want, really, is a tidy procedure that neatly resolves the loose ends. The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes. Patterson and New Zealand pro Matt Horne seized control in the face of a tidy but far from fierce attack. I never thought of him being meticulous, but you're probably right; his handwriting was very neat and very tidy. I'm just looking for a neat and tidy finish to the season before preparing for the new one. This time, he was more confident and more controlled, but still managed some very spectacular and tidy dancing. The open-ended nature of the story is in keeping with the character who has been presented to us but is a little on the frustrating side for anyone seeking tidy endings. She turned the paper so that the side with Christy's tidy writing faced outward. 2informal attributive (of an amount, especially of money) considerable. 〈非正式〉（数量）相当大的；（尤指钱）相当多的 the book will bring in a tidy sum 这本书将带来一笔可观的收入。 Example sentencesExamples The Glasgow firm, a world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control units, also made a tidy fortune from millennium parties around the world. He put a tidy amount on at 40-1 and picked up a four-figure sum. Irvine has made a tidy living as a controversial tabloid editor, columnist and now owner of his Glasgow-based PR company Media House. You could join the thieves guild and make quite a tidy bit of money. They generally look to sell off the businesses between three and five years for a tidy profit. The night is due to be a good one and you never know you might win a tidy sum of money just before Christmas. At a fiver a head it would have made a tidy sum for some deserving cause. For this little upset, she was awarded the tidy sum of £3,500. The seller will be content to depart with a tidy sum as a reward for years spent developing the enterprise. This tidy sum may be dinner money for many of you high-flyers, but for the rest of us, it would go down a treat. He pocketed quite a tidy sum and left a richer man. It amounts to the tidy sum of several thousand dollars. Well done to both girls who finished the run in a good time and managed to raise a tidy sum of money in sponsorship for Newry and Mourne Hospice. The Poker Run of a few weeks ago benefited St. Vincent's Hospital in Mountmellick and raised a very tidy sum with the money still coming in. All who attended, not just the winners who walked away with a nice tidy sum of money, had a great night. At $10 a month per user, that amounts to a tidy sum. Plus, the money I don't spend on meat will amount to a tidy sum as the years pass. However, I plan to retire long before then with a tidy income from company and private pensions, ISAs, property and so on. Helen's father, Francis, sold the winning ticket and he received a tidy sum of €440. We deferred almost all our household spending for six months and thus earned a tidy amount of extra interest. Synonyms large, sizeable, considerable, substantial, significant, appreciable, handsome, generous, ample, respectable, largish, biggish, fair, decent, decent-sized, healthy Scottish &amp Northern English bonny informal not to be sneezed at, serious archaic goodly 2.1 Used as a general term of approval. 相当好的，令人满意的 City have the backbone of a tidy side 市队有很好的骨干队员。 Example sentencesExamples The former Biggar player's tidy performance encapsulated the discipline and focus of a side which had a well-constructed gameplan and which stuck to it as well as they have all year. nounPlural tidies ˈtʌɪdiˈtaɪdi 1also tidy-upBritish in singular An act or spell of tidying something. 整理，收拾 she's coming to give his house its Saturday morning tidy Example sentencesExamples If you just witter vaguely about a dust-round and tidy-up, you've only yourself to blame if you come home to a grimy cooker. Do a quick tidy-up if you want and definitely make sure there are no unfinished jobs that could catch your eye. It needs some serious cleaning and a good tidy-up, plus a lot of airing. Inside, the car gets a much-needed trim tidy-up, with a redesigned instrument cluster and space for satellite navigation and climate control. The graveyard looks well after last Sunday's tidy-up - the final one for this year. Following the successful cleaning campaign in October last year, a second tidy-up is being organised as part of Earthday on April 22. It is not that there are any great problems with the house, it just needs a bit of a vac round and a tidy. Several tons of rubbish were cleaned from houses during the tidy-up. Rain stopped play on the garage painting project late in the afternoon, so Graham shifted his attention to the inside, doing a major tidy-up on the garage and on his workshop at the back end. Yesterday I did a major tidy of the back room, and I mentioned that I intended doing the same for the front room. One of her first appeals will be to have the traditional tidy-up done daily by shopkeepers in front of their own premises. The insides get a tidy-up too, with better seats and improved trim. I've collected a few, taken them home and they usually end up in a drawer or get thrown away during the next tidy-up. The money was raised last November, when all the members of the club took part in a sponsored graveyard tidy at St Michael's and All Angel's Church, Haworth. The point is that the heart of our town needs an injection of pride and a total tidy-up. She said people living nearby did their best but they were disappointed that their opportunity for a tidy-up had been spoiled. They were taking part in the monthly tidy-up organised by the local Community Association. Many parents of teenagers know all about bedrooms needing a good tidy-up, but how many would require a full-scale archaeological dig? The public in return have asked us to pass on their thanks to the Development Group for co-ordinating and promoting the tidy-up. They're in need of an autumn tidy, that's for sure, but it's a job that'll keep Graham busy for no more than half a day, possibly as much as a full day. 2usually with modifier A receptacle for holding small objects or waste scraps. 装零星杂物的容器 a cable tidy Example sentencesExamples Cables are the bane of any globetrotting geek's life, and while there seems to be no perfect solution to the misery of self-knotting spaghetti, I am taken with the ease and simplicity of the magnetic cable tidies. Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory. As we look down the inside length of the unit, on the left hand side at the rear is a nice cable tidy, to keep the power leads out of your way. The pen tidy in question wasn't a container, it was a lump of something jellified with holes in so that you had to choose which pen fitted which hole and then rearrange them like flowers or pineapple chunks on sticks in a grapefruit. Disposing of the tub in the kitchen tidy, she searched the lounge room for her mobile phone and wallet. 3US A detachable ornamental cover for a chair back. 〈主美〉（椅子靠背的）罩单，套子 verbtidies, tidied, tidying ˈtʌɪdiˈtaɪdi [with object] 1Bring order to; arrange neatly. 使整洁（或整齐）；收拾 the boys have finally tidied their bedroom figurative the Bill is intended to tidy up the law on this matter 〈喻〉议案旨在这个事情上完善法律。 no object I'll just go and tidy up 我就去收拾。 Example sentencesExamples Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess. If the weather stays reasonable I'll be tidying the garden but that won't take too much effort. Then we could see all the chefs tidying stuff away and we realised that it wasn't going to be. The good thing about spending all weekend tidying my bedroom is that I have a tidy bedroom. Tributes were also made to everyone who had cleaned and tidied the graves and to those who cut the grass. You wouldn't believe what I found under the rug when I was tidying this place up. Used needles, rubbish and even a caravan had been left on the site, creating a danger to those tidying it up. At a knock on her door, she tidied the desk quickly and sat down with a book. Surely it's impossible to simply pick up a pile of papers and staple them without tidying them? I decided to make a start on tidying things in readiness for the move to a new family house. He ordered that the place be tidied up to disguise evidence of a party. When she arrived, Sam brought her to his workstation where they chatted while he tidied his desk. It is the council which allowed rubble to be tipped there, it is the council which has never cleaned or tidied it. The wells in the old graveyard are being tidied up and cleaned for the day. He'd apparently spent all day at home tidying his property and had even had flower-arrangers in to do work. I welcome their efforts in picking things up off the floor and tidying their rooms. This doesn't stop me waking up early and running round tidying the flat, polishing and cleaning. Suddenly there is nothing to worry about other than tidying my room and sending emails. In theory I was supposed to be paying bills and tidying paperwork too, but that never happened. Thinking they were arguing, she continued vacuum cleaning and tidying the rest of the house. Synonyms put in order, clear up, sort out, put to rights, straighten (out), make shipshape, clean, clean up, spruce up informal dejunk groom oneself, spruce oneself up, freshen oneself up, preen oneself, primp oneself, prink oneself, pretty oneself, beautify oneself informal titivate oneself, doll oneself up British informal tart oneself up archaic plume oneself, trig oneself 1.1tidy something away Put something away for the sake of neatness. （为使整洁而）移开，拿掉 I was tidying away papers in my office 我正整理办公室的文件。 Example sentencesExamples It wasn't even in the tub marked ‘leather’, which is the only place that someone might tidy it away to by mistake. We finished up, tidied things away, then hit the showers. His dishes had been tidied away and stacked in the dishwasher; hers remained on the kitchen bench for him to see to. Mention has already been made of using Velcro loops to tidy the wiring away. To be fair, it was as well they rang, as it forced me into the shower and down to breakfast in time to catch the last of the buffet before it was tidied away for the day. Well no-one rang, so we tidied some papers away and had a cup of tea. After tidying the stuff away I popped up to see P and she seemed really well. It could be that you want your child to tidy the toys away each day, or change out of his school uniform when he gets home - it's up to you. It looked like she had been standing there thinking for quite a while, as everything on her desk was tidied away, no work in progress left out, and her chair was neatly pushed in. The whirlwind of toddlers has been and gone, (most of) the mess is tidied away, Akra Jr is in bed if not quite asleep yet. Synonyms remove, take away, carry away, move, shift, tidy away, tidy up Derivatives tidily adverb ˈtʌɪdɪli Patients unfortunate enough to expire did so tidily tucked up in bed. Example sentencesExamples He is described as white, in his late 30s to early 40s, with short, dark neat hair and tidily dressed. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. So, like the pressing need in the US for some certainty in a lot of things, they tried to wrap it as tidily as possible. Catherine's pork medallions were tidily presented and accompanied with a filling parsley mash and creamy sauce. Origin Middle English: from the noun tide + -y¹. The original meaning was 'timely, opportune'; it later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including 'attractive', 'healthy', and 'skilful'; the sense 'orderly, neat' dates from the early 18th century. Rhymes bona fide, Heidi, mala fide, vide Definition of tidy in US English: tidy adjectiveˈtīdēˈtaɪdi 1Arranged neatly and in order. 整洁的，整齐的 his scrupulously tidy apartment 他那十分整洁的公寓。 figurative the lives they lead don't fit into tidy patterns 〈喻〉他们过的日子杂乱不堪。 Example sentencesExamples Robert Cecil was Secretary of State as well as Leader of the House of Commons, and made earnest efforts to regulate the private lives of citizens into a neat and tidy pattern. His wife, Olfah, is arranging furniture that has just arrived at their tidy two-bedroom flat. Lace curtains neatly surround the latticed windows while pretty flowers border the tidy garden which has obviously been lovingly kept. It would only take a couple of minutes to keep outside business premises tidy. Salford has efficient binmen and clean, tidy town centres, roads and parks, says an independent watchdog. The judges were very impressed with the area and how tidy and neat it is. When I sit down on empty days like this and wonder what to do with myself I think mostly of tidy roses and neatly mown lawns. If you give an example of keeping things well organised and tidy, the chances are your adolescent will eventually do the same. This will be an integral part of the tidy towns five year plan. The hippie girls, Kelly and Mollie, finally moved off the island and out of the trailer, and now have a tidy apartment up in the 80s. Although I'm not hugely obsessive about it, it has to at least appear to be tidy and clean. A careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden. They can barely wait to get rid of the place so they can return to a tidy apartment in Paris with a bistro next door. The mess the workmen had created in her normally tidy and well-organised house had driven her out and down to the local shops in an attempt to get away from them. Wellingborough is tidy, neat and comfortable rather than prosperous. I was very particular about these things - I had to make everything perfectly tidy and orderly, or I would go crazy. The village was neat, with tidy little houses, arranged along three roads leading out from this castle. She prided her self in loving everything neat, tidy and organised. By the day of the party, Rowena and Sammy were entirely unpacked, the apartment was tidy, and the food preparations were on schedule. They were packed with tidy rows of disks, neatly labeled and organized alphabetically. Synonyms neat, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, well ordered, in order, in good order, well kept, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span, uncluttered, organized, well organized, well arranged, sorted out, straight, straightened out, trim, spruce 1.1 (of a person) inclined to keep things or one's appearance neat and in order. （人）爱整洁的，爱整齐的 she was a tidy little girl 她是个爱整洁的小女孩。 Example sentencesExamples Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts. Irving, thought by his family at home in Vermont to be obsessively tidy, is a control freak. And then he decided the reason we aren't living together is because you're tidy and I'm not. It looks like the home of a particularly tidy student. Lydie, a more calm and tidy girl by nature, had graduated at the top of her class back in Mount Lennon. He is a small, tidy man with a neat beard and an orange Yves Saint Laurent top. She's fabulously sweet to us, and thinks we're very tidy and considerate. After the third knock a charming and tidy gentleman appeared at the front door. I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, because anybody who reads this is probably a considerate and reasonably tidy person. Yet this girl, with a meticulously tidy mother and accountant father, was a walking bomb site who couldn't add up. If you wore slacks you were almost certainly a member of the golf club, you were neat and tidy and smart, you were destined for a middling job, an early marriage and early middle age. She'd never been a very tidy person; thus the slightly mess apartment. Synonyms smart, spruce, dapper, trim, neat, well groomed, well turned out 1.2 Not messy; neat and controlled. 有条理的；工整的 he wrote down her replies in a small, tidy hand 他以工整的小字记下了她的回答。 Example sentencesExamples He did not threaten aerially but was prepared to tackle and his distribution was generally tidy. All the fans want, really, is a tidy procedure that neatly resolves the loose ends. She turned the paper so that the side with Christy's tidy writing faced outward. The results move straight into a very tidy profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement, followed by cleanly presented notes. This time, he was more confident and more controlled, but still managed some very spectacular and tidy dancing. You'll see neat and tidy chapters, broken into subsets on theory, mechanics, and practice. York bowled a tidy and straight line but NYCA never kept up with the required run rate despite Conway batting right through for an unbeaten 68. The words inside were written in black ink, in very neat and tidy handwriting. Wilson runs a neat and tidy show, with just the occasional seasoning of edge to it. Of course, this process is not as neat and tidy as I have made it appear. In a rather neat and tidy package, the movie playfully portrays the highs and lows of a complicated dating process. I'm just looking for a neat and tidy finish to the season before preparing for the new one. I never thought of him being meticulous, but you're probably right; his handwriting was very neat and very tidy. My neat, tidy organised life is structured to avoid self-inflicted nasty surprises. Patterson and New Zealand pro Matt Horne seized control in the face of a tidy but far from fierce attack. He has a tidy action and excellent control over his line and length. Bassett keeps these feelings just below the surface, letting the viewer watch as she struggles to maintain her tidy life in control. The open-ended nature of the story is in keeping with the character who has been presented to us but is a little on the frustrating side for anyone seeking tidy endings. 2informal attributive (of an amount, especially of money) considerable. 〈非正式〉（数量）相当大的；（尤指钱）相当多的 the book will bring in a tidy sum 这本书将带来一笔可观的收入。 Example sentencesExamples At a fiver a head it would have made a tidy sum for some deserving cause. He pocketed quite a tidy sum and left a richer man. They generally look to sell off the businesses between three and five years for a tidy profit. The Glasgow firm, a world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control units, also made a tidy fortune from millennium parties around the world. For this little upset, she was awarded the tidy sum of £3,500. We deferred almost all our household spending for six months and thus earned a tidy amount of extra interest. The night is due to be a good one and you never know you might win a tidy sum of money just before Christmas. It amounts to the tidy sum of several thousand dollars. He put a tidy amount on at 40-1 and picked up a four-figure sum. This tidy sum may be dinner money for many of you high-flyers, but for the rest of us, it would go down a treat. The seller will be content to depart with a tidy sum as a reward for years spent developing the enterprise. However, I plan to retire long before then with a tidy income from company and private pensions, ISAs, property and so on. Irvine has made a tidy living as a controversial tabloid editor, columnist and now owner of his Glasgow-based PR company Media House. All who attended, not just the winners who walked away with a nice tidy sum of money, had a great night. Well done to both girls who finished the run in a good time and managed to raise a tidy sum of money in sponsorship for Newry and Mourne Hospice. The Poker Run of a few weeks ago benefited St. Vincent's Hospital in Mountmellick and raised a very tidy sum with the money still coming in. At $10 a month per user, that amounts to a tidy sum. Plus, the money I don't spend on meat will amount to a tidy sum as the years pass. Helen's father, Francis, sold the winning ticket and he received a tidy sum of €440. You could join the thieves guild and make quite a tidy bit of money. Synonyms large, sizeable, considerable, substantial, significant, appreciable, handsome, generous, ample, respectable, largish, biggish, fair, decent, decent-sized, healthy nounˈtīdēˈtaɪdi 1usually with modifier A receptacle for holding small objects or waste scraps. 装零星杂物的容器 a cable tidy Example sentencesExamples Disposing of the tub in the kitchen tidy, she searched the lounge room for her mobile phone and wallet. Cables are the bane of any globetrotting geek's life, and while there seems to be no perfect solution to the misery of self-knotting spaghetti, I am taken with the ease and simplicity of the magnetic cable tidies. Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory. The pen tidy in question wasn't a container, it was a lump of something jellified with holes in so that you had to choose which pen fitted which hole and then rearrange them like flowers or pineapple chunks on sticks in a grapefruit. As we look down the inside length of the unit, on the left hand side at the rear is a nice cable tidy, to keep the power leads out of your way. 2US another term for antimacassar verbˈtīdēˈtaɪdi [with object] Bring order to; arrange neatly. 使整洁（或整齐）；收拾 the boys have finally tidied their bedroom figurative the Bill is intended to tidy up the law on this matter 〈喻〉议案旨在这个事情上完善法律。 no object I'll just go and tidy up 我就去收拾。 Example sentencesExamples Tributes were also made to everyone who had cleaned and tidied the graves and to those who cut the grass. You wouldn't believe what I found under the rug when I was tidying this place up. Surely it's impossible to simply pick up a pile of papers and staple them without tidying them? He ordered that the place be tidied up to disguise evidence of a party. Then we could see all the chefs tidying stuff away and we realised that it wasn't going to be. Thinking they were arguing, she continued vacuum cleaning and tidying the rest of the house. I welcome their efforts in picking things up off the floor and tidying their rooms. If the weather stays reasonable I'll be tidying the garden but that won't take too much effort. At a knock on her door, she tidied the desk quickly and sat down with a book. He'd apparently spent all day at home tidying his property and had even had flower-arrangers in to do work. In theory I was supposed to be paying bills and tidying paperwork too, but that never happened. It is the council which allowed rubble to be tipped there, it is the council which has never cleaned or tidied it. Used needles, rubbish and even a caravan had been left on the site, creating a danger to those tidying it up. Suddenly there is nothing to worry about other than tidying my room and sending emails. This doesn't stop me waking up early and running round tidying the flat, polishing and cleaning. The good thing about spending all weekend tidying my bedroom is that I have a tidy bedroom. When she arrived, Sam brought her to his workstation where they chatted while he tidied his desk. The wells in the old graveyard are being tidied up and cleaned for the day. I decided to make a start on tidying things in readiness for the move to a new family house. Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess. Synonyms put in order, clear up, sort out, put to rights, straighten, straighten out, make shipshape, clean, clean up, spruce up groom oneself, spruce oneself up, freshen oneself up, preen oneself, primp oneself, prink oneself, pretty oneself, beautify oneself Origin Middle English: from the noun tide + -y. The original meaning was ‘timely, opportune’; it later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including ‘attractive’, ‘healthy’, and ‘skillful’; the sense ‘orderly, neat’ dates from the early 18th century.
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