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Finish up   /fˈɪnɪʃ əp/   Listen
Finish up

verb
1.
Finish a task completely.  Synonyms: clear up, finish off, get through, mop up, polish off, wrap up.
2.
Finally be or do something.  Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish, land up, wind up.  "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again"






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"Finish up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Paris Conference would get busy and finish up that treaty," observed Frank impatiently. "What in heck keeps them dawdling ...
— Army Boys on German Soil • Homer Randall

... Drama lay in the fact that nobody could ever find the place where it was hidden. Cabmen shook their heads on the rare occasions when they were asked to take a fare there. Explorers to whom a stroll through the Australian bush was child's-play, had been known to spend an hour on its trail and finish up at the point where they ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill

... a plan," resumed Miss Craydocke, as Leslie took the measure of a buttonhole and began. "Change of work is as good as a rest. So I've had them down here on the curtain among the girls. Next, I'm going to have a bee. I've got some things to finish up for Prissy Hoskins, and they're likely to be wanted in something of a hurry. She's got another aunt in Portsmouth, and if she can only be provided with proper things to wear, she can go down there, Aunt Hoskins says, and stay all ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... has to pay for his experience, but you know it looks as if a fellow had to do so much paying that when he does finish up by really owning something, he will have paid such a beastly lot for it that he'll never be able to make it ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson

... breath will be found quite refreshing when one is tired and generally "used up." A trial will convince the student of its merits. This exercise should be practised until it can be performed naturally and easily, as it is used to finish up a number of other exercises given in this book and it ...
— The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga • A. P. Mukerji


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