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finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
She polished off the remaining potatoes -
kill intentionally and with premeditation
The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered -
finish a task completely
I finally got through this homework assignment
How To Use polish off In A Sentence
- At my altar, I deploy cotton pledgets dipped in remover, clean flecks of old polish off each nail, then file the sides
- When completely dry, polish off with a clean cloth. Times, Sunday Times
- As I sifted between lines for funnel cakes and frybread, I watched an elderly man in an ornate headdress polish off a Frito pie with a big smile on his face. Ryan Schwartz: Tribal Celebrations Stir the Senses
- Polish officials, for example, were annoyed to be told to invite a senior Russian to a recent pro-democracy shindig in Cracow: excluding him would supposedly have caused a damaging row.
- When completely dry, polish off with a clean cloth. Times, Sunday Times
- Ahead lay an L-shaped pit with the fresh corpses of his fellow Polish officers.
- Do not worry about overfeeding a little as the dear little ducks will soon polish off any excess bait and the feed itself will attract infusoria and water-borne insects to your swim.
- At this rate you'll hit double digits by the time you polish off a slice of apple pie after dinner (it counts, but no ice cream).
- It's the biography of Stefan Francis Gazel, a Polish officer whose early childhood memories were of invading German, Austrian and Russian armies during the Great War and who, during the Second World War, fought his way through Hungary and Jugoslavia to England, where he joined the Free Polish forces under General Anders. Paperback Cover Cavalcade 1
- My mum used to make the world's best ever blackcurrant pie - she made home grown blackcurrants into a pie that I could polish off on my own over several evenings.
