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finishing touch

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finishing touch
n.
A small change or addition that serves to complete something.
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Noun1.finishing touchfinishing touch - a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
touch - deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"


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Vronsky's mother, on hearing of his connection, was at first pleased at it, because nothing to her mind gave such a finishing touch to a brilliant young man as a liaison in the highest society; she was pleased, too, that Madame Karenina, who had so taken her fancy, and had talked so much of her son, was, after all, just like all other pretty and well-bred women,--at least according to the Countess Vronskaya's ideas.
To lie there helpless when Eva was expecting me, that would be the finishing touch.
I was only seeking further information, to put the finishing touch.
 
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