enter/get into the spirit of (something)

to show that you are happy to be at a social event by talking to a lot of people, dancing, or wearing special clothes.

'Hey, I like your hat!' 'Well, I thought I'd better enter into the spirit of things.'

I'm afraid I was feeling too ill to really get into the spirit of the evening.

• a man of few words
• a man of God
• a man of his word
• a man of letters
• a man of many parts
• a man of means
• a man of straw
• a man of the cloth
• a man of the world
• a man's got to do what a man's got to do.
• a man's man
• a mare's nest
• a marked man
• a marriage made in heaven
• a match made in heaven
• a matter of
• a matter of doing something
• a matter of life and death
• a matter of life or death
• a matter of opinion
• a matter of record
• a matter of something
• a matter of time
• a meal ticket
• a means to an end