mop up

Please mop up the spilled milk.

They learned nothing in their lives to prepare them for this time period; they were choosing to mop up the silliness of their past and shape it into something to promote survival.

He mopped up the sauce with the bread and scarfed it down like he had been raised by wolves.

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

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.

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

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.

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.