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tidy up

alt. To make clean. In particular to make satisfactorily neat. Usually used to describe the straightening-out of a small room or small space. vb. To make clean. In particular to make satisfactorily neat. Usually used to describe the straightening-out of a small room or small space.

WordNet
tidy up

v. put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" [syn: tidy, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away]

Usage examples of "tidy up".

I have some things to tidy up there, and I need to pick up some clothes and tools.

Roger Comstock, left behind, Cinderella-like, to tidy up and tend the furnaces, had apparently gotten bored and sneaked off to an alehouse, because the candles had all been snuffed, leaving the big room lit only by the furnaces’.

Enjoying himself now, he leaned on the counter and watched her tidy up.

But because you made me take that time and that trouble when I'm investigating a murder-a really nasty, messy murder, by the way, that's going to take a whole slew of your mighty maids to tidy up-I'm going to wonder why you slowed me down.

Killed and dumped her in such a way that identification would be delayed long enough for him to tidy up any connection between himself and Cobb.

A faint undertone of disgust suggested that he might even be trying to tidy up the Place so that Novice Thaile would not be upset when she saw it again tomorrow.

My original intention was to tidy up loose ends and save everybody embarrassment.

The Fell Street captain gave her a couple of weeks open-ended, to tidy up.