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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
A broad, sexy, and distinctly feline grin is the habitual finishing touch.
And for the Americans to make it past Ghana, they will have to find their finishing touch again.
The arrival of the two Germans, Bode and Busche, gave the finishing touch to the conspiracy.
A short, well-trimmed beard put the finishing touch to ‘the Squire,’ for so his friends styled him, half in jest.
Poor Miss Hattie put the finishing touch to her visit by departing without taking leave of her hostess.
But the icy welcome, the cold and contemptuous tone of my brother, put the finishing touch to the laceration of my heart!
It needed little to decide me, and I think K—'s arrival from Switzerland, offensively sunburnt, was the finishing touch.
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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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