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make yourself respectable
humorous
Definition
to put on clothes so that you are in a suitable state to meet someone
Could you wait a minute while I make myself respectable?
(Definition of make yourself respectable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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