dim up

To cause dim lights to become brighter. We knew that the band wasn't going to play another encore when the lights in the arena dimmed up.

dim something up

to use a dimmer to make the lights brighter. (Theatrical. A dimmer is a rheostat, variable transformer, or something similar. The expression, a seeming contradiction, is the opposite of dim something down.) As the curtain rose, the electrician dimmed the lights up on a beautiful scene. You dimmed up the lights too fast.

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释义	dim up dim up To cause dim lights to become brighter. We knew that the band wasn't going to play another encore when the lights in the arena dimmed up. See also: dim, up Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. dim something up to use a dimmer to make the lights brighter. (Theatrical. A dimmer is a rheostat, variable transformer, or something similar. The expression, a seeming contradiction, is the opposite of dim something down.) As the curtain rose, the electrician dimmed the lights up on a beautiful scene. You dimmed up the lights too fast. See also: dim, up McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: dim out brown out shoot the lights flash on someone flash on something dim down shut the lights take a dim view of, to outen the lights dim bulb
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