What is "fixing up"

Usage examples of "fixing up".

I went about fixing up a bite of something to eat, knowing nobody would smell smoke in all that rain, and probably nobody would be riding until it was over.

I'm fixing up this place so we can take in lodgers and make some money now Father's gone.

I know all the phones are out but it shouldn't take too long to reconnect them and you're fixing up a temporary rudder control in the engine-room.

His old man's spent most of his money fixing up the shop and just paid back the loan from our bank.

The two of them remained in the living room while I began fixing up the study.

And when the summer work's done, we can set to fixing up our old cabin it's still pretty solid, since we ain't moved out of it but two years now.

And when the summer work's done, we can set to fixing up our old cabin-- it's still pretty solid, since we ain't moved out of it but two years now.