Mop up

Don't forget to mop up the gravy with your bread, there's a good husband

. And I only realised everyone was looking at me as I pushed the last corner of toast around my empty plate to mop up a stray splash of egg yolk.

I made a pretence of continuing my supper, but I, too, had ceased to be hungry. Only the children continued to mop up the meat and vegetable juices on their plates with hunks of barley bread.

The function of the weak acid component of a buffer is to act as a source of H⁺ ions which can mop up any added OH⁻: HA + OH⁻ → A⁻ + H₂O

The war, legitimised as it was by the coalesced decision makers, was intended to 'mop up' terrorism.

I have not slept enough yet to mop up the exhaustion of my working week.

The main function of HDL is to mop up the excess LDL cholesterol and take it away from the cells and artery walls to the liver, where it is either broken down or excreted.

The penalization of over two million of the poor helps both to underpin social order and to mask unemployment; the large military also helps mop up excessive numbers of the redundant poor.

In the third-degree price discrimination, the monopoly sets a price higher than the profit-maximizing price, P, to mop up a limited part of the consumer's surplus.

Oh I say, drinking champagne at eight thirty in the morning – how decadent. I must eat a croissant immediately to mop up the alcohol.

Crew members or leaders of a 20-person organized inter-agency hotshot suppression crew build firelines, conduct burnout operations, and mop up after the fire using chainsaws and hand tools such as Pulaskis and shovels.

Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.

And when the aftermath of the bus crash had been mopped up, they could be on standby for the first casualties from a cyclone.

They patch up, mop up, neaten up the halfcooked and unsatisfactory ideas they find lying around in their head.

So what you brought us together for is to tell us we're gonna turn Billy Gold over to them, mop up our operation, and go back to having normal lives again.

It seemed to me like there was too much to tie up and mop up in Hitchhiker, so that trying to write it like that would just be a continual task of knotting up the loose ends, when in fact it might be better just to think of something completely different.

Barber smashed it hard and harder, but the keeper absorbed it with all parts of his body for the adjacent line man to mop up the rebound to clear.

No good trying to charge with them. They'd just squeal and bolt, and there are more than enough of these filthy horse-boys to mop up our lot on the flat.

One battalion was to mop up the Japanese on Hill Xray-Yoke and in the gulch to the south of it while the other two were to move up the ridge itself.

Atrocities on live Americans like beheading prisoners on Wake Island, the mutilation of bodies at other Pacific Island battles. It's kind of sad, when you look back at it, what happened to a human being, how fast you could change when survival was at stake. They made us mop up on the way back to the ship.

But they gwan open it up like tomorrow after they mop up and the authorities get done—too much tourist business to be lost ... what little is trickling in.

The idea was to mop up any enemy forces between Grandcamp and Pointe du Hoc.

John Willment, a Ford distributor in Middlesex, imported a Holman & Moody-prepared Galaxie and – you may recall – let it loose among the 3.8 Jaguar racing contingent. WHAM! It mopped up everything in sight.

As more and more Red Sox drew walks and hit singles, our once insurmountable lead diminished. So, Joe Torre came out to call in his bullpen to mop up.

Sanderson was out to mop up a few lower-grade races, including a Class 4 Hurdle for five-year-olds and upwards over two and a half miles, in which he was up against Kerry.