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finishing touch
Idioms and Phrases
A small change or addition that serves to complete something. For example, The room still needed a few finishing touches, such as a flower arrangement . This expression is sometimes put as a finishing stroke . [c. 1700]Example Sentences
In 2024, the Trojans brought in a starting cornerback, starting defensive tackle and kicker to put the finishing touches on its depth chart.
Then come the finishing touches - to maintain your sense of being in a futuristic or fantasy world while you're there.
As luck would have it, Pete was captured on video just as Banksy's team were putting the finishing touches to Valentine's Day Mascara – a video that The Banksy Story managed to obtain.
For many, it's little more than a stop for "girl dinner" or the finishing touch on a charcuterie board.
At about 22:00 BST, the teenager joined her parents in their small kitchen where her mother was putting the finishing touches to the adults' tea, spaghetti bolognese and garlic bread.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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