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make a bed

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make a bed

To neatly straighten the sheets and blankets of a bed after one has gotten out of it. "Make (one's) bed" is used more often to mean the same. I have to make a bed as soon as I get up in the morning—I can't stand to look at sloppy bed clothes.

See also: bed, make