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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



... I miss York Powell's friendly laughter and Henley's exuberant welcome. They made a warmth that has gone, those men. I can understand why I, with my fumbling lucidities and explanations, have to finish up presently and go, expressing as I do the mood of a type and of a time; but not those ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... and especially Rand, felt themselves to be to a certain extent responsible for the situation in which they found themselves that they readily agreed to turn to and exert themselves to the utmost to finish up the work of preparing the camp for the ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor

... have been to sea ever since I was a boy, I never had command of any kind of craft, and it struck me that I would like to finish up my life on the ocean wave by taking command of a vessel. It is generally understood that riches will give you anything you want, and I said to myself that my riches should give me that. I didn't want a sailin' vessel. I was tired of sailin' vessels. I wanted a steamer, and when I commanded ...
— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton

... I reckon, an' I certainly wish I wus safe through to Fort Marcy, but I don't know no reason now why you could n't finish up your trip all right. I wus out to the fort last evenin' gettin' the latest news, an' thar hasn't been no trouble to speak of east of old Bent's Fort. Between thar and Union, thar's a bunch o' Mescalo Apaches raisin' thunder. One lot ...
— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish

... myself, but I'm pretty busy and there'll be some running back and forth to do. You come back in a day or two and we'll see how things stand by that time. As soon as Sylvia gets rested she'll go back to college to finish up, and then come to ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson


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