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finishing touch

Idioms  

  1. 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]

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While The Last of Us was wowing audiences, the producers of Fallout were putting the finishing touches to the first season of their adaptation, one which took a different approach to its source material.

From BBC

The finishing touch is the "star" - an outline of a crab with white lights.

From BBC

Austin Reaves put the finishing touches on the Lakers’ 135-118 win over the Clippers on Tuesday by scoring 18 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter.

From Los Angeles Times

For the finishing touch, she placed the princess’s emerald ring on her finger.

From Literature

The children were eager, but Penelope had declined, explaining that she needed to put a few “finishing touches” on her remarks.

From Literature

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