9 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 have put on their Sunday best/have put their glad rags on
Explanation:
The second option is a little less formal. Suerte.
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If you want to keep the formal tone then I would use \"put on their Sunday best\".
\"Sunday best
One\'s finest clothes, as in They were all in their Sunday best for the photographer. This expression alludes to reserving one\'s best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (meeting here meaning “prayer meeting”). [Mid-1800s]\"
http://www.answers.com/sunday best&r=67
| Rebecca Hendry
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:25
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 16
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32 mins confidence:
23 mins confidence: dressed to the hilt
Explanation:
We swell up with pride and nostalgia when we see our sons and daughters dressed
to the hilt in formal wear. Unfortunately, there is also that nagging ...
http://parentingteens.about.com/od/promresources/
Flowing white brides dress and the bridegroom dressed to the hilt.Do the church
bit and they end up having a full traditional wedding. ...
www.eshowe.com/ - 47k - Jul 16, 2005
You can come in dressed to the hilt or you can be casual. By the time you leave,
you feel like you’re friends with your servers, the manager, and maybe even ...
http://damngoodwine.com/restrev_bigbasin.htm
while I was covering for someone in the Seafood, dressed in an expensive dress,
a full length real leather coat, and her five kids dressed to the hilt. ...
www.angry.net/people/w/welfare_recipients.htm
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Patricia, your suggestion also works just fine. Perhaps adding the word \"very\" might do just the trick: \"...are dressed in their very finest\" or \"...[and its people] all in their finest attire\" :-)
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to the hilt
Completely, to the maximum degree...
http://www.answers.com/to the hilt&r=67
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Another option might be \"elegantly attired\" :-)
This traditional, 30\'s style bride, is elegantly attired in a simple mermaid-style
ivory satin gown with a flowing train and floral detailing on the back. ...
www.matildadolls.com/wedding.htm
vestirse de gala = elegantly attired / dressed to the hilt
| Marcelo González
United States
Local time: 09:25
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
12 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 putting your best face forward
Explanation:
Otra opción
The City of Tlaxcoponopaxitapl and its people are putting their best face forward...
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Thousands Get Personal With Australia PostIn a limited edition, thousands of Australians and international guests are putting their best face forward in their SNAPSHOT! Personalised Stamps™ booklet ...
www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1080,CH4180%7EMO19,00.html - 44k - Cached - Similar pages
BEST OF THE BESTTo help determine which clubs are putting their best face forward, Club Industry decided to team with Bare Associates International (BAI) to “shop” the ...
clubindustry.com/mag/fitness_best_best/ - 57k - Cached - Similar pages
navigating conflict... it difficult to be vulnerable and totally honest in the early stages when the persons are putting their best face forward to impress the other person. ...
www.camft.org/ScriptContent/TherapistFinder/ article_navigatingconflict.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
Club Industry: Best Of The BestTo help determine which clubs are putting their best face forward, Club Industry decided to team with Bare Associates International (BAI) to \"shop\" the ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0HED/is_9_19/ai_107996527 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages
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No estoy seguro a qué falta de concordancia se refiere Jane. Yo sugiero \"the city and the people ARE putting THEIR...\"
En cuanto a lo de \"best face\", ciertamente no sería \"their best faces\" para que concuerde con el prural.
iMediaConnection: In Focus: Put Your Best Face Forward
So companies can be sure their employees are getting the tools they need to put their best face forward with customers, and each other, in everyday work ...
www.imediaconnection.com/content/6221.asp - 38k -
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\"decked out\" works for me too, but I prefer the \"face forward\" bit in this context.
CBC Radio | The Current | Whole Show Blow-by-Blow
Getting a city ready for The Olympics is a mammoth job. ... and getting infrastructure ready, it\'s also important for a city to put its best face forward. ...
www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2004/200408/20040824.html - 32k -
| George Rabel
Local time: 15:25
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 44
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4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 turn out/turned out in their finest
Explanation:
A "Who's Who" of the Sunnyvale community turned out in their finest for the 40th ... The event is a celebration of the people and businesses of the city. ...
www.svcn.com/archives/sunnyvalesun/ 20050202/sv-news3.shtml
... All of the city was turned out in their finest. ... For the madrugada (or Middle-of-the- night/early morning) of the fifth day, a million-plus people stay up ...
web.bvu.edu/organizations/tack/asp/story.asp?id=713
Members and friends turned out in their finest for an evening of ...
www.dcatchorus.ca/media/perspective.pdf
... Everyone turned out in their finest for the affair, and I found to my ...
www.bucconeer.worldcon.org/contest/2004f_37.htm
All of the city was turned out in their finest. ...
web.bvu.edu/organizations/tack/asp/story.asp?id=713
| Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 12:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 13
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| | Grading comment | Again, thanks to everyone for all these remarkable ideas and the discussion, too! I ended up using "the city, and and its people, are all decked out to receive ... " So Michele gets some points for helping me go in that direction. (Also, thanks, Jessica, for commenting on the register...) |
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2 hrs confidence: dressed in evening clothes
Explanation:
that is the most formal, least marked expressions..you have been given many good expressions but not one which provides the idea of verstirse de gala..without all the fanfare
evening clothes: a man wears a tuxedo or nice black suit and a woman wear something kind of evening dress (colloquially called an evening gown in the US)
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Patricia: careful with the present tense here....we don\'t tend to use historical present in these cirumstances in English...
It sounds like a description of an event in the past.
If that is correct, I would use: were wearing evening clothes..
final: wore, were wearing evening clothes
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OH WHoops...Just realized my mistake: OK here it is:
La Ciudad de X, y su gente, se viste de gala al recibir su obra escultórica, en el marco del X aniversario de su fundación.
[Mexico City] and its people were spruced up festively to welcome the artist and his sculptures as part of the festivities marking the anniversary of the foundation.
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Final: [City] and its people were spruced up festively...
please note: the verb has to concordar with the people and the city. No one seems to be taking that in account.
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The idea: it was a festive occasion..
festively turned out
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a City and People can be: decked out, spruced up, turned out festively..all those..
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personally, I would go with: The City and its people were festively turned out..
in this case, the passive works to carry the meaning of to be turned out...
| Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English, Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 99
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