单词 | mop up |
释义 | mop up 1. < have heard much less of Brighton's race gangs since the war, so let us hope that they have been mopped up — S.P.B.Mais > specifically < the bulk of the troops were still needed to guard and mop up the captured territory — Infantry Journal > < it was left to Australians to mop up the bypassed Japanese — D.L.Oliver > 2. < urchins are abundant in nearby waters and are … mopped up by the tubful — W.C.Allee > < added seventeen swimming and diving gold medals to the 56 they had mopped up in other events — Newsweek > < contributes to antiinflation … in that it mops up funds that might otherwise be paid out in higher wages and dividends — W.H.Anderson > < sales of assets will serve to mop up surplus credit — W.M.Dacey > intransitive verb < most of the East Cambridge apparatus was mopping up at the two engine house fires — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < quick-freezers, whose products were not rationed, mopped up on the home front — Harper's > specifically < behind it would come truck-borne infantry and mobile guns to mop up and to widen the breach — Tom Wintringham > |
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