polish up something
polish
noun[ U ]
us/ˈpɑl·ɪʃ/
Polish is a cream or other substance that you use to clean or shine something:
shoe/furniture/silver polish
Someone or something with polish has great skill or perfect style:
The rest of the cast comes nowhere near equaling his polish onstage.

Examples of polish

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All pearls are refereed (including my own), and there is often a fair amount of polishing as a result of the reviewing stage.
Internally, walls have been plastered with stucco romano that is neither tinted nor polished.
The country rock was typically coarse crystalline granite gneiss, strongly weathered, ventifacted, and partly polished, and outcrops were 'crumbled' and without strength.
To sum up these narratives: a forgotten early music is resurrected in recent times and gradually polished up to achieve a historically informed performance practice.
Certainly in carrying a sense of their making and makers, such materials contrast with plastics and polished or lacquered finishes and mechanised processes.
Rather than honing and polishing a good musical idea, he wanted to follow the dreaming muse of his genius down every rabbit hole.
The floor elements were polished and columns had a variety of shapes, colours and finishes.
Samples from the normal smooth surface of the gneiss boulder show that the surface has been ground and polished during glacial transportation.
Whether the story is of his own invention or borrowed from others, he adorns and polishes it with various embellishments as it pleases him.
The machined parts have their interiors polished and are bonded together.
The surfaces of each metal were ground and polished with sandpaper (300-4000) and alumina powder (0.3 m).
To such supporters he is a far cry from the polished politician they distrust.
The mold was buffed and polished for maximum optical clarity, and attachments were made for mounting external tubing.
One can detect concrete as old and repaired, painted, smooth and new, rough and weathered or polished.
In our study, a part of this contribution could be attributed to persistently contaminated polishing equipment in a single slaughterhouse.
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