tidy something away

tidy | American Dictionary

tidy
adjective
us/ˈtɑɪ·di/

tidyadjective (NEAT)

(of appearance or behavior) neat:
a tidy house

tidyadjective (LARGE)

(of amounts of money) large:
He made a tidy sum/profit.

Examples of tidy

tidy
All desks had been tidied, and leads without client profile cards attached were locked or hidden away.
The wrapped main function performs some initialization, calls the old main function, and then tidies up the results.
Editing and proofreading are necessary tasks, like tidying up the living room before the guests arrive.
Like housework, it is a tidying process that is only visible in its absence.
Many of the matching, sorting and ordering activities can arise incidentally within the periods of tidying away and clearing up.
He disliked the whole idea of tidying up worship.
No one else could have tidied up five-centuries-old loose ends as he.
I have also tidied up more of the attacks and word-endings, to get them precisely in time.
Finally, it had the general purpose of tidying up the physical landscape in which the polite lived.
The grammatical system will go on tidying itself up in small ways.
The two views are then combined and the image is tidied up electronically.
First, there is a good deal of tidying up to do.
However, one day when the disorders have all been studied and the tidying up done, the vein will start to run out.
The typography was revamped, under the influence of art nouveau, and the page layout was tidied up, with a rule down the centre to separate the two columns.
She tidied her hair with one hand.
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