he bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it.
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Sainsburys agreed and provided a lovely Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
From the harrowtimes.co.uk
Excess fertilizer can lead to steriodal shrubs and huge piles of lawn trimmings.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Burn or destroy all trimmings to minimize recurring insect and disease problems.
From the stltoday.com
You can also add some of the meat trimmings along with carrots, celery and onion.
From the freep.com
Fill the compost bin with raked leaves and spent annuals and perennial trimmings.
From the philly.com
There's high excitement in the air, so we might as well have all the trimmings.
From the couriermail.com.au
The trimmings were hard to fault, the roast potatoes and leek gratin outstanding.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
For the event, designers and florists brought in most of the holiday trimmings.
From the dailyherald.com
Repeat with the remaining dough, then gather leftover trimmings and roll and cut.
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The act of adding decoration; "the children had to be in bed before it was time for the trimming of the tree"
A decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt"
Trim: cutting down to the desired size or shape
(trimmings) fixings: the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity); "an elaborate formal dinner with all the fixings"; "he bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it"
(trim) a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim"
(trim) spare: thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
(TRIM) In computing, a TRIM command allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally.
(Trim (aircraft)) A conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction in flight. ...
(Trim (cat)) Trim was a ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03.