Usually means: Improve, refine, or enhance something.
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  1. polish up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Definitions from Wiktionary (polish up)

▸ verb:  (literally) To polish something to make it shiny.
▸ verb:  (figurative) To hone (one's skills).

Similar:
Polish, brush up, round off, round, repolish, burnish, shine up, sleek, simonize, silver, more...

Opposite:
dull, tarnish, roughen, blemish, mar

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Similar:
Polish, brush up, round off, round, repolish, burnish, shine up, sleek, simonize, silver, more...

Opposite:
dull, tarnish, roughen, blemish, mar



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