beef something up
beef up
To increase something, often in strength. With all these protestors here, we definitely need to beef up security. My boyfriend has been going to the gym every day for months in hopes of beefing up his frame. We need to beef up our services in order to rival our competitors' more comprehensive offerings.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
beef something up
tv. to add strength or substance to something. They beefed up the offer with another thousand dollars.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- beef up
- bring (someone or something) into action
- bring into action
- pelt (someone or something) with (something)
- pelt with
- pelting
- absent (oneself) from
- converge in upon (someone or something)
- converge on
- converge (up)on (someone or something)