polish up

polish up

vb (adverb)

1. to make or become smooth and shiny by polishing

2. (when intr, foll by on) to study or practise until adept at; improve polish up your spelling he's polishing up on his German

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

polish up - bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners" brush up, round off, polish, round perfect, hone - make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!"

Translations

? polish up

vt sep

shoes, floor, silver etc → polieren, auf Hochglanz bringen

(fig: = improve) style → aufpolieren, verfeinern; work → überarbeiten; one’s French etc → aufpolieren (inf); you’d better polish up your ideas (inf) → du solltest dich besser auf den Hosenboden setzen (inf)

vi → sich polieren lassen