mop sth up
— phrasal verb with mop uk/mɒp/us/mɑːp/verb [ T ] -pp-
(CLEAN)
to use a piece of cloth or a mop to remove liquid from the surface of something:
There's milk on the floor over there - could you get a cloth and mop it up?
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Cleaning & tidying places & things
- a lick and a promise idiom
- adjust
- airing
- bed
- brush
- char
- clean (sb/sth) up
- freshen (sb/sth) up
- going-over
- Hoover
- housekeeping
- housework
- shampoo
- spit
- straighten sth out
- straighten sth up
- tidy sth away
- vac
- vacuum
- valet
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(FINISH)
informal to finish dealing with something:
It took a week to mop up the last of the enemy soldiers (= defeat them).
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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