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sewed up

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*sewed up 
1. Lit. [the sewing of a gap in cloth] completed. (*Typically: get something ~; have something ~.) Have you got that tear sewed up yet?
2. and *wrapped up Fig. settled or finished. (*Typically: get something ~; have something ~.) I'll take the contract to the mayor tomorrow morning. I'll get the whole deal sewed up by noon. Don't worry about the car loan. I'll have it wrapped up in time to make the purchase.
See also: sew, up


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We rummaged the clothes we'd got, and found eight dollars in silver sewed up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat.
I've had them sewed up in cotton bags ever since Thomas died, and no doubt they're an awful color.
It was a bad cut, and must be sewed up at once, the doctor said, as soon as he came.
 
 
 
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