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wrap up

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wrap something up
to complete work on something; to bring something to an end. I will wrap the job up this morning. I'll call you when I finish. I can wrap up this little project in a week.
See also: up, wrap

wrap up something also wrap something up
to complete or stop doing something The president will wrap up his visit to China on Thursday. It's late and I have to get home, so let's wrap it up and finish tomorrow.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of wrap something up (to put paper around something to cover it)
See also: up, wrap


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"--she rose to her feet--"conventional, Cecil, you're that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don't know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me.
They would wrap up in all they owned, but they could not wrap up against exhaustion; and many a man gave out in these battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell asleep.
On the other hand, in every letter I urge you to be more careful of yourself, and to wrap up yourself warmly, and to avoid going out in bad weather, and to be in all things prudent.
 
 
 
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