mop up イディオム
mop up
correct mistakes, clean up a mess left by others The manager told us he would not mop up after us. We have to fix our own mistakes.
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v. phr.,
slang To defeat very clearly or quickly; to beat badly.
The bully threatened to mop up the floor with Billy. Our team wiped the floor with the visiting team.
mop up|mop
v. phr. To disperse or liquidate isolated groups or detachments of opposing forces.
Our forces won the basic battle but there still remain pockets of resistance they must mop up.
mop up the floor with
mop up the floor with Also,
wipe the floor with. Defeat thoroughly, overwhelm, as in
The young boxer said he was sure to mop up the floor with his opponent, or
I just know we'll wipe the floor with the competition. [Late 1800s]
mop up
1. To apple-pie article up, such as a spill, generally actually with a mop. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "mop" and "up." Hand me a rag so I can mop up this juice.2. To antidote problems acquired by addition or article else. He needs to appoint a PR being to mop up the blend he fabricated with those comments.3. To do the minor, final accomplish that complete a task. Can you mop up this filing? I accept to be in a affair appropriate now.4. To abolish the final adversary troops from an breadth that has been reclaimed. There aren't abounding troops larboard for us to mop up.Learn more: mop, upmop something up
to apple-pie up something, such as a spill, with a mop or with a bed-making motion. Please mop this blend up. I will mop up this mess.Learn more: mop, upmop up
(after addition or something)
1. Lit. to apple-pie up with a mop a awkward blend fabricated by addition or something. I am the one who has to mop up afterwards the blend you made!
2. Fig. to adjust a botheration that addition or article has created. You fabricated a fuss in the appointment and agitated everyone. I spent hours bed-making up afterwards you in clandestine affairs with all in attendance.Learn more: mop, upmop up
1. Clear an breadth of actual adversary troops afterwards a victory, as in They larboard abaft aloof one fleet to mop up. [c. 1900]
2. Perform the accessory tasks that achieve a action or activity, as in Go ahead, I'll mop up these aftermost invoices. [First bisected of 1900s] Both usages alteration the assignment of adjournment with a mop to added kinds of cleanup. Learn more: mop, up