2. PHRASAL VERB
If someone sews up something such as a business deal, an election, or a game, they make sure that they will get the result they want.[INFORMAL]
- If they didn't move fast, Johnson could sew this deal up within days.
- The Italians think they've got it all sewn up.
... Cobuild
sewed(sewn) up :
1. Lit. [the sewing of a gap in cloth] completed. (Typically: get something ~; have something ~.)
- Have you got that tear sewed up yet?
2. also wrapped up Fig. settled or finished. (Typically: get something ~; have something ~.)
- I'll take the contract to the mayor tomorrow morning. I'll get the whole deal sewed up by noon.
- Don't worry about the car loan. I'll have it wrapped up in time to make the purchase.
sew someone or something up :
1. Lit. to stitch together an opening in someone or something.
- The surgeon sewed the patient up and pronounced the operation a success.
- This is torn. Can you sew up this rip?
2. Fig. to complete one's dealings with or discussion of someone or something.
- It's time to sew this up and go home.
- I think we can sew up the shipping contract this afternoon and get on to someone else.
- Let's sew up this last matter and go.
... McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verb,
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