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Polish up   /pˈɑlɪʃ əp/   Listen
Polish up

verb
1.
Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.  Synonyms: brush up, polish, round, round off.





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"Polish up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Eugene. "My step-brother wasn't very much chevalier sans peur et sans reproche! Ah, I should like to polish up my French a little. Would you mind my asking you to read a bit with me, some little thing of Daudet's if you care for him, in the original? An ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
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... could deceive d'Arthez; but they told him, laughing, that they now offered him a most seductive opportunity to polish up his heart and know the supreme fascinations which love conferred on a Parisian great lady. The princess was evidently in love with him; he had nothing to fear but everything to gain by accepting the interview; it was quite impossible he could descend ...
— The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan • Honore de Balzac
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... shouting (and, entre nous, to give the Candidate a little more time to polish up his impromptus), the questions were handed up on slips of paper and read aloud, and answered seriatim. They were sorted and arranged for me by Robin, and I not infrequently found, among the various slips, a question usually coming directly after a regular ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
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Words linked to "Polish up" :   round, hone, perfect, round off


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