polish off

verb

Definitions

  1. To finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor.

    • They polished off the last of the cake.
  2. To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive).

    • White rice is rice that has had the brownish hull polished off leaving just the white inner part of the grain.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA