Meaning Make an effort to present oneself well dressed and smartly turned out.
Usage Worldwide.
Example
- I'd only ever seen Jim in jeans before. Now he's in a suit and had a haircut I think he scrubs up really well.
Pronunciation
Idiom
Scrub up
What does "Scrub up" mean?
Make an effort to present oneself well dressed and smartly turned out.
Scrub up
Derived as an allusion to the intensive scrubbing that surgeons undertake to be especially clean for operations.