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Please help me understand the following phrase/idiom: "to be a scrubbed up a treat"
  

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Hi, Please help me understand the following phrase/idiom: "to be a scrubbed up a treat" 'Scrubbed up' - without context, I take this to mean 'cleaned' or 'washed'. This use of 'a treat' is British slang. It is an intensifier, meaning roughly 'very nicely'.

— Clive

  • Hi, Please help me understand the following phrase/idiom: "to be a scrubbed up a treat" 'Scrubbed up' - without context, I take this to mean 'cleaned' or 'washed'.
  • This use of 'a treat' is British slang.
  • It is an intensifier, meaning roughly 'very nicely'.
  • Hence, 'to be cleaned very nicely'.
  • Clive
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Hi,

Please help me understand the following phrase/idiom: "to be a scrubbed up a treat"



'Scrubbed up' - without context, I take this to mean 'cleaned' or 'washed'.

This use of 'a treat' is British slang. It is an intensifier, meaning roughly 'very nicely'.

Hence, 'to be cleaned very nicely'.

Clive
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