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tone someone or something up

to make someone or something stronger or more fit, muscularly. I suggested an exercise that would tone him up and make him feel better. The exercises toned up his tummy muscles. I need to get busy and tone myself up.

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You may be happy to continue with this and be proud of your flattened look, or you may want to tone up your stomach muscles. Faltten Stomach Bulges - 3 Tips to Help You Flatten Your Stomach by Gerald Wiley / Food/cooking/nutrition community With strappy and short-sleeve tops beckoning, JOANNE WELFORD discovers 10 ways to tone up with the help of Marske fitness instructor and Middlesbrough College tutor Rachael Barton BINGO wings are the underarm flab that comes from having out-of-shape triceps - the muscles in the back of your upper arms. 10 ways to... banish your bingo wings; 10 NEWS ONLINE: ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) Byline: Fiona Russell WHEN stunning actress Kristen Bell wanted to tone up for her title role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, she pulled on her boxing gloves. FIGHTING FIT; NEW BOXING EXERCISE CLASSES ARE GREAT FOR GETTING INTO ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)			toffee-nosed together together with toil toil for toil over toil up toilet toing and froing token token gesture told tolerable toll toll for tom Tom, Dick and Harry Tom, Dick, and Harry tomorrow Tomorrow is another day Tomorrow never comes Tomorrow's another day ton tone tone down tone up tongs tongue tongue in cheek tongue-in-cheek tongue-lashing tons of too bad too big for boots too big for britches too close for comfort too close to call too for words too funny for words too good to be true too hot to handle too little, too late too many chiefs Too many chiefs and not enough Indians Too many cooks Too many cooks spoil the stew too much Too much information! too much of a good thing too rich for blood took the words right out of my mouth			Tone Modulation Tone Modulation tone of voice tone of voice tone of voice tone of voice Tone Operated Gain Adjusting Device Tone Operated Squelch Tone painting tone poem tone poem tone poems tone poems Tone quailty Tone quailty Tone quailty Tone quailty Tone quality Tone quality Tone quality Tone quality Tone Reproduction tone reversal Tone River tone row Tone rows Tone syllable tone system Tone Tomšic Tone Tomsic tone up Tone, (Theobald) Wolfe Tone, (Theobald) Wolfe Tone, (Theobald) Wolfe Tone, (Theobald) Wolfe Tone, Musical Tone, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Walling and Kissinger Tone, Wolfe tone-and-voice pager Tone-Bearing Unit tone-beginning Tone-cluster tone-deaf tone-deaf tone-deaf tone-deafness tone-deafness Tone-gawa Tone-Masking Noise tone-modulated waves tone-only pager tone-operated net-loss adjuster Tone-Reducing Ankle-Foot Orthosis Tone-row tone-setter Tonearm Tonearm TONEC toned toned

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